When I visit the city, I am paying attention the second I get off the train in Penn Station. It payed off because the light was different on this day and the shiny parts of the escalator were brilliant. And the effect was that the people on the escalator, both riding up and down, were silhouetted by those bright parts and instead of people they became just shapes. I stood in this spot for 10 minutes and took a lot of photographs until I got an interesting arrangement of shapes. I did convert this to black & white because there were some people wearing bright colors and that took your attention off the overall scene and on to those people.
3 comments:
Love the black and white photo. There is so much contrast with the long straight escalator with silhouettes and then the ceiling with the round lighting black grid line and checkerboard all above your head. Amazing. Joan
Thanks, Joan: The new Penn station has some wonderful architectural details in it, like this brand new entrance by escalator that never existed before.
Looks like something from a spy show…Betsey
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