Commuter Blue by CoreyBlack

Photography • Urban/Cityscape • posted on Oct 27, 2011

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Description

I thought about calling this "Commuter Very Pale Aqua", but that seemed a touch busy... I was standing on the Belmont train station platform waiting for a Ravenswood/Brown Line, when the cold Chicago wind began to blow in off the lake. Long time Chicagoans call any strong wind that roars in off the vast expanse of Lake Michigan "the Hawk." Like a lot of "local color" expressions in this town, I'm not entirely sure why. I suspect it's a reference to the hawk-like shrieking of the howling gusts of stinging cold wind as they rush at you like talons ripping at any exposed flesh. (Gee, what an over-ripe sentence.) Anyway, a low octane version of the Hawk was rendering my light jacket about as useless as an American politician, and I took refuge inside the escalator shelter. It was then that I noticed the silhouettes of these fellow commuters through the tinted Plexiglass of the enclosure. As my train approached, I dug out my camera and did a little quick ninja action. I'm always surprised when these seat-of-the-pants shots come out. Obviously the God of Photography is watching over me. Photographed in the Lake View area of Chicago on October 19, 2011.

Comments (14)

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Chipka

8:54PM | Thu, 27 October 2011

Oh, it's The Future, complete with inhabitants...well...shadows of them. I love the clean lines and the implications (if not the reality) of efficiency at the Belmont Hub. I really like the almost ethereal quality this has and the clean, futuristic lines that imply pedways and maglev transportation and all of that stuff we were supposed to get by the year 2000. Whatever happened to the future, anyway? Where are the lunar colonies and the offworld excitement and square-jawed guys named Buck and Flash? Where are Tom Swift's electro-thingies and personal airplanes? This is a great shot though, and I love the clean elegance of it.

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mgtcs

10:00PM | Thu, 27 October 2011

Absolutely amazing capture here, marvelous perspective! Love dit!

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jeanebean

10:14PM | Thu, 27 October 2011

Beautiful capture. Like the mysterious shadowey figures and the different levels of floor. Gives me a case of vertigo. Thanks for sharing.

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bmac62

10:23PM | Thu, 27 October 2011

Oooooo, I like:) Takes me back to childhood memories of subway and El rides in and around NYC. So many people, so many ninja moments...well done!

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KatesFriend

11:35PM | Thu, 27 October 2011

Very cool in a flash back sort of way. This reminds me of the GO Train platform at Port Credit. Built adhoc in the late 60's it has never had any kind of renovation since then - I haven't been there in three years so maybe I'm wrong now. One of the busiest stations in the entire GO network too. In those days they described it as modular and ultramodern. It bears/bore the 'look' of many a moment from that speculative culture show 'Here Comes The 70's'. We're all suppost to be living in giant cubes for cities that were more like factories by now. People would be anonymous numbered drone-like types (a bit like indifferent Morlocks without the cannibalism). I suppose it is now worth looking back an seeing how far they were off the mark. Outside the decor of the Port Credit GO station that is. Though I remember one episode feature clips from the film 'THX 1138'. Theme music for 'Here Comes The 70's' found here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i76ZUPup9LQ

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auntietk

11:55PM | Thu, 27 October 2011

That's Robert Culp and Bill Cosby standing there, getting ready to to the intro for I Spy. Silhouettes, waiting to swing a tennis raquet and aim a gun. Ummm ... maybe before your television viewing time ... that show was in the mid 60s. (They were "tennis bums" as their cover, but of course they were secretly agents for the Pentagon or whatever.) Love the pale aqua. Nicely done!

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blinkings

12:23AM | Fri, 28 October 2011

Well seen Corey. I try to avoid those kinds of biting winds at all costs.

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durleybeachbum

3:42AM | Fri, 28 October 2011

What a STUNNER!

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Sea_Dog

10:20AM | Fri, 28 October 2011

Well done, a really unique and interesting POV. The composition is striking - the silhouttes on the plexiglass, the perspective dowh the escalator. Even before I read your narrative I had the image of a cold windy day in Chicago Nice work.

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