new -- color & b&w 'The Tunnel' (IV)

A Metro (subway) rider walks along a far and opposing Metro (subway) line

awaiting the next train in the opposite direction as seen through a tunnel

connecting two lines taken in one of the deepest Metro stations in the world.

Because the Metro in Kyiv is planned largely without climbs or drops, when

stations pass beneath tall heights, ultra-long escalators, sometimes in two

sections (as here) including one with the world's longest escalator, are used

to get passengers to the trains. Your ratings, critiques and observations are

invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very critically, or wish to make

a remark, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share

your photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! john

I was there several times and had several candidates, some somewhat compelling, but the last time happened to capture this in a minute or so and said 'this is it'.  

And it is.  It has the symmetry the others I took were wanting, but didn't realize at the time.

Thanks for words of encouragement.

john

John (Crosley)

John.  Great shot that was really well timed.  I like the reflections of the person in each wall.  It is very subtle but effective.  I also think the de-saturated tone (second time I used this description today) is effective.  Finally, I like how the detail is retained in the foreground (tunnel) but the subject is a silhouette with no detail.  The bottom line is a fine photograph.  All the best.  Dana... 

Great timing to get the person centered in the gunbarrel-like tunnel and have the trio of reflections to create that inversed pyramid.I know you don't like to retouch your images but that dark post or whatever at the left edge of the opening works against a better symmetry.Just my thoughts on this,another excellent image.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

You're right on two counts.

I very much don't like to retouch my images when it means removing or moving anything that relates to the reality of the scene; I come from a photojournalistic background, and to do so would get one fired as a photojournalist.

You're also right that the dark vertical figure/post (or whatever) somewhat breaks the symmetry, but that isn't necessarily a negative.  Sometimes if an image is 'too perfect' on a point like symmetry it begins to look too photoshopped or 'plasticky' and somewhat unreal, so I like to throw in a bit of reality, but if truth be told, the issue never even occurred to me.  I just played the hand I was dealt and it never occurred to me to 'finish' the dark vertical line or 'finish it off' for the sake of 'art' because my 'art' includes leaving in 'imperfections' many times.

;~))

Thanks Laurent for a thoughtful comment.

john

John (Crosley)

Sometimes you have it; sometimes you don't.

I've taken a photo or two at this exact spot before and the photo was worth posting but just not as good, so it (they) never got posted.

Not long ago, I was getting off a train to 'double back' to get a seat on a long journey back past a point where soon everybody would be getting off freeing up a seat for me, and I just stopped for about 30 seconds, set my camera, aligned it with the horizon, aimed and the first person or second who walked by got two shots and this is the second.

Luck, however, does favor the well prepared, as I knew I would take this shot, and literally 'manufactured' it -- it was just a matter of what day and what time, and that day turned out to be the one. (and the last one at that, for obvious reasons).

Thanks for an astute comment and for the compliment too.

john

John (Crosley)