View allAll Photos Tagged Commute
Hunters returning from a long day/night at work. Taken around midnight when the sun is nearing it's lowest point, giving the most beautiful pink hues.
To comMUTE in screwedCITY doesn't mean to travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis – it actually means to travel huge distance within screwedCITY limits, (which is extremely huge) around places located somewhere in between one's home and place of work on a regular basis just for the sake of being surrounded by mute fellow citizens on low public transport fare. Most members of screwedCITY middle and upper class prefer this activity more than after-work parties, while many prestigious law firms take comMUTE as a cheap replacement for team-building.
This is classic screwedCITY – comMUTErs on McCullough's grandiose Turnstile Plateau waiting for a bus or train from there to somewhere and in-between...
Past a $20M coal slinger sitting at the shipyards destined for North Van from where coking coal is exported to Japan; a production and export driven by demand for metal.
Being an early commuter myself this given morning - I was looking for that individual in context with the light the framing to show the journey.
Most people, when thinking about how people get around here, say LA is the land of cars and freeways. And yes, there are plenty of both. Just in my small part of the urban jungle, I am surrounded by the 101, the 170, the 134 and the 5. (Prefixing freeway names with "the" is a Californian thing) Anyhow, there are other ways than freeways to get around. There's the light-rail/subway system, Metro. I use the Metro to travel to downtown LA and do photowalks. My photostream has a video, DTLA, which documents one such walk. Then there's the heavy rail commuter train system, MetroLink. The photo is the Burbank MetroLink station, which I pass over daily doing my own commute, walking (and usually with a camera). I suppose that makes it a liminal space, in a way. One of these days I'll have to catch the MetroLink and see where it goes and who rides. I'll bring my kit. :)
_0160364
Barcelona. Catalonia.
Check it out my Portfolio: GETTY IMAGES
Just a regular morning of commuting, something that after 2 years of Home-Office I feel a bit odd. Sharing the space with strangers is getting more natural bit still odd.
Dutch commuters at Rotterdam Centraal station let there loved ones know they are on their way home as the setting sun lights up the platform and the Sprinter bound for Vlissinghan.
Located : Between Shimamoto station and Yamazaki station on Tokaido Main Line, Japan Railway.
Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka.
東海道本線 / 島本駅 ～ 山崎駅 間にて撮影
大阪府三島郡島本町
Located : Between Shimamoto station and Yamazaki station on Tokaido Main Line, Japan Railway.
Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka.
東海道本線 / 島本駅 ～ 山崎駅 間にて撮影
大阪府三島郡島本町
This is what the traffic looks like from our place, all the way to Sault Ste. Marie on the TransCanada Highway. That's the joy of living here instead of the big city.. not to mention the great scenery!
“Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which, if we only stopped to think about them, are just the opposite of what we were made for?”
-Thomas Merton