Honghaitan, in Jilin, China.
Honghaitan, in Jilin, China.
Beijing Chaoyang Side Park, China, the middle of winter, dry and cold.
While the process of travel itself remains as painful as ever I still very much appreciate that through travel we are able to experience other places and people. As travelers we pass through airports, seaports, train stations and bus stations on our way to and from places a far. While passing through these hubs is not uncommon to find people excited, laughing, crying, running, sleeping, and doing just about anything else you can imagine. While we seldom meet many if any of our fellow travelers during our brief passages through these hubs but we all share a common bond as “travelers”.
Seeing people in motion, coming and going at transportation hubs is always intriguing to me. I guess I am curious where they are going and what they are doing there. I have tried many times to capture “travel” in a photograph but I feel none of my images do it as well as this one.
This photo of people silhouetted by the daylight through the large glass wall behind them leaves you to wonder who they are and where they are going or even imagine you are one of them. It could be any where, any time, and anyone but they are clearly traveling.
I love the rain and taking photographs in the rain just seems to feel good. This “rainy blur” was the result of taxi and bus passing behind and in front of two pedestrians waiting to cross a major street during a downfall. Both vehicles passed completely across the image frame during the 1 second exposure streaking their colours across the image. The slight blur of the people is because they too moved slightly during the photograph while the cross walk lines on the road are sharp because the camera was on a tripod.
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