11/20/10 - "Penn Station Perspective"

Penn Station Perspective

The main hallway of Penn Station in Manhattan;
all decorated (already) for the holiday season.

          In my 29+ years of commuting to work in Manhattan, and having walked nearly every single passageway still extant inside Penn Station, I had never - until yesterday - shot a single photograph there. I've now taken two: This is the second.

          Normally I switch into my fall back, tunnel vision mode of viewing while there: It's a survival mechanism - necessitated by needing to concentrate fully on traversing the shortest route to my track of departure as quickly as possible, while avoiding all eye contact and other potential impediments to my progress.

          Yesterday, as I had my camera out and available during my walk to Penn, and while waiting for my track to be posted, I killed the few minutes I had available by composing and photographing this image.

          I shot two more images before arriving there, and many more after disembarking in Seaford, during a short walk at Mill Pond in Wantagh, NY - including yesterday's Picture of the Day. I'll be posting one from each location as runners-up photos a little later today. They'll be among the other smaller images that have now been re-arranged near the bottom of my blog page.

          I'd like to thank all of you who have visited my blog thus far; and I send a very special thanks to those few who have commented, or who have left comments. It's been a learning process, for me; but it's one that I'm enjoying very much!


Links:
"Penn Station Perspective" prints available here.
More about Penn Station.
More about Mill Pond.

Camera Data

Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS 5D
Shutter Speed:1/49 second
Aperture:F/5.6
Focal Length:80 mm
ISO Speed:800
Date Taken:Nov 19, 2010, 12:24:44 PM
Software:Adobe Photoshop CS Windows