View allAll Photos Tagged Commute
san francisco
for some a world icon, for others a daily commute perhaps to work or home.
golden gate bridge in fog
11/17
this morning while driving to a late appointment, i drove through the park and saw the most breathtaking forest with what must have been about 180 degrees worth of rays breaking through the fog forest trees, sprinkling its spotted light onto the ground below. sooooo wonderful and encompassing but unfortunately i could not stop for it but boy did it make my day seeing it!!!
As a lover of traffic trails I've always wanted to capture a shot like this. My local topgraphy sadly falls short of making it a reality.
Finding myself in Wales I planned to head for a location that could deliver. Whilst en route I had traversed the road you see below. Reaching the top and with twilight rapidly approaching it left me with a tough decision. Stop here in moody light but have to hunt for a vantage point; or press on with the journey, miss the light but end up at a known vista with a classic hairpin view.
I held on.
Scrambling blindly towards the edge of a *very* steep drop, the route below came into clear view. I was glad I'd made the right choice :)
Single continuous exposure. Sony A7s w/ Nikon 35mm at f/10 ish (manually adjusted). 3-stop soft grad for sky.
_____
» LongExposures website and blog
"In the before-times, before the plague, before everyone just stopped going, our histories tell of a ritual called the morning commute. When thousands of people in thousands of cars would glide into that vast downtown island, towering and gleaming above the surface of the earth like some desert mirage. But it was very real. It was where we spent the very real hours of our very real lives. Where we shat and ate and occasionally died. Clockwork, every day, rain or shine, we shuttled in and out like ants to a hill, our will wrought by working as parts to a whole. And somehow, someway, though this nebulous whole left all in want of more, we were rewarded: change for a life tendered and the chance to do it over again tomorrow."
Am 30. September 2017 brachten 1142.608 und 1116.056 den leeren Erzzug LGAG 58665 nach Eisenerz. Dieser Zug verkehrt täglich und bekommt ab Selzthal zumeist einen "altwertigen" Vorspann für die Fahrt durch das Gesäuse. Bei Frauenberg im Ennstal konnte ich diese Leistung aufnehmen. Im Bildhintergrund die eindrucksvolle Warscheneckgruppe, am rechten Bildrand verbirgt sich die Wallfahrtskirche von Frauenberg hinter den Bäumen. Nettes Detail am Rande ist der kleine Smiley auf der Lokfront der 1142.
At September 30th 2017 ÖBB's 1142.608 and 1116.056 hauled empty freight train LGAG 58665 to Eisenerz. This train commutes on daily basis and gets most of the time an older engine in front to support the Taurus for its journey through the so-called Gesäuse. I took this picture near Frauenberg, in the background you can see the impressive mountain chain called Warscheneckgruppe. On the right side the church of Frauenberg hides behind the trees. Nice detail is the little smiley on the front of the class 1142 engine.
I like plumbing around in my Lightroom catalog.
Here's one from 2017 using that "special" 10-18mm on a full-frame camera. What makes it "special" is that if you set the camera to full frame then, without vignetting or cropping, you can get roughly 12-16mm at FF megapixels & DoF.
It's always awesome when I'm driving home and I hit the bend just before the Waldo tunnel and see the low marine layer. Today there was just the tip of the Pyramid showing. It's doubly awesome when I have my gear in the trunk too!
Evening commuter service (29000-class) to Maynooth reflecting the setting sun. Taken on the Maynooth side of Blakestown Cross (Deey Bridge), along the banks of the Royal Canal.
Lincoln iPhoneography. Full workflow with images at each stage on my blog at skipology.com/iphoneography-workflow-commuting
A modified 2005 Gary Fisher Tassajara mountain bike. In three months, I've logged over 500 commuting miles in San Antonio with this bike saving 42 gallons of gasoline and about $53 a month (based on my gas-guzzling F-150 pickup).
Sometimes you just get lucky. I found this shot during my commute to work over the years, and finally tried it out today. Drew and I had second guesses on shooting here or the crackhead bridge because of all the wires, but we started to hear a rumble so we held our ground. As expected the Eddyville local we'd been chasing rounded the corner, and then... Amtrak? Usually the Ottumwa sub becomes a parking lot during Amtrak time so seeing this was pretty damn cool.