Yes, it's my favorite location again. If this one breaks 6, I promise not to try it again. Well, for a while, anyway. :) It just really, really fits the challenge. I also very carefully cropped to make each side mirror the other.
I did at least shoot it looking at the other end of the platform from, say, this one:
One of the things I find interesting about Metro images is that these funky colors show up that I don't even notice with my eyes. In this one, there are greens and blues. In others there have been reds. To my eyes, though, it's just a big gray cavern.
If it had been advanced editing, I would've darkened the bright light in front, so I did for the print:
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First, thank you for filling out the comments with something more than technical information! Second, although you broke 6 I hope you won't stop shooting these...I love the DC Metro--no place quite like it!
Clearly fitting for the challenge topic and rhythmic as well as symmetric. The repeating lines of the metro arches are just fun to look at. I think not everyone can easily interpret the location, however. Perhaps if there were trains speeding through on the rails it would help to define the space.
The colors of light that only become evident when placed on photographic medium are intriging...it's odd how much our minds compensate for the vagaries of our vision. I must, however, agree with one commentor that the white light dead center is a distraction...easily fixed in Advanced but must be lived with in Basic.
Overall, I believe you know what you're doing when you make an image. If I were to nudge you in any direction it would be toward finding the poetic expression that lies a little deeper in your soul. (But, hey, what do I know?)
A familiar view, given that I'm in your neck of the woods. Odd about the colors - I don't notice them either when I'm there. But they work well in the composition though, keeping the relentlessness of the cement blocks interesting.
Excellent entry, Jeffrey! I'm sorry I didn't get to this one while voting, I'm sure I would have given it a very decent score. You do the architecture thing so well...
Ah, the DC metro. I love it ever so... Can't wait to get back.
Nice shot - did you have a tripod or just a really fast lens? Compositionally I think it might have worked a little better with more of the escalator in the shot, but that's just one man's opinion...
I like this shot, and it's a neat perspective, but the light in the lower center is distracting for me. I might have tried cropping off the bottom to really emphasize the symmetry in the image.
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