Down and Out by CoreyBlack
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This is one of the stairways that leads down from the platform and out to the street of the Damen Avenue station on the Ravenswood /Brown Line elevated train. Photographed in the Ravenswood area of Chicago on March 1st, 2011.
Comments (21)
durleybeachbum
Corey, this one of the very best pictures I have ever seen! Absolutely splendiferous!
Chipka
That is one popular stairway. I've got the same shot, but when you stop and think that we often take photos right next to each other, that's not surprising. I love the business in this; Chicago is at its best when it is busy (and not just a busybody) and that shows in this picture. I love the shadows and the lines, the patterns and that little tiny hint of open blue sky in an otherwise enclosed photo. Great POV. Funny how it doesn't look so impressive when you're downstairs looking up. Fantastic shot!
Feliciti
fantastic shot !!
skiwillgee
Everything about this shot is busy, busy, busy. Shadow and line all over the place. Excellent.
Flixthe
Magnifiques lumières.
charpix
Great one, but I am so glad not to have to go up or down these stairs! lol
fallen21
Excellent shot.
jeanebean
WOW!!!! I get vertigo just looking at it. Magnificent!!!! My stomach is doing flip-flops!
blinkings
Wow our railways have gotten rid of any 'normal' looking architecture years ago. It's all concrete and colour these days.
ges
Perfect light and shadows
Sea_Dog
I like the almost abstract feel to this - all lines and angles. Very nice POV.
beachzz
I'm getting very dizzy.......lol
auntietk
WOW! I LOVE this! Light, lack of color, architectural stuff, abstract stuff ... it's superb in SO many ways! Excellent eye, and a WAY cool picture.
flavia49
amazing image!!
kgb224
Stunning capture my friend. God Bless.
sandra46
STELLAR SHADOWS
Lashia
awesome shot and lighting- thanks for sharing! :-)
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whaleman
Wow! This photo is positively alive with lines and shadows!
myrrhluz
This is a marvelous shot! While I generally like people in shots, I love that you got this one without any, giving the full glory of the shadowed patterns. They seem to bounce down the steps, show in full glory on the first landing, then disappear and reappear much smaller at the bottom. When you see them in their entirety they have an art deco feel. In fact if it weren't for the no slip metal flooring, I would think these stairs at some early century beach resort. I love the way the shadows are also on the wall to the left and the one down at the foot of the stairs. The pattern can even be seen in the distance in the upper left portion of the image. I'm not sure if it is a sidewalk, roof, or what, but there is the pattern again. It seems to go on and on until you are not sure where it will show up next. Really cool! I love this shot!
danapommet
Cool shadow patterns on the textured steps. Dana
anahata.c
just wonderful, Corey!!! A maze of light & dark, metal and air, object and shadow & deep cavernous space...just wonderful. And your unerring sense of angle to boot. I'd have done a very centered thing because I would've been afraid of tilting it at all; yet you've only tilted it a little, and yet it gives the piece a highly dynamic plunge. And the luminous blue atop---both right & left top---is just gorgeous against all this white. I agree with Lucinda, the lack of people is absolute here. You just do this over & over again. This is one of the best shots of a train station I've seen---and you & Chip have done some great shots of Chicago train stations. Stunning. What a terrific eye you have! 400 stars.