This thread used to be on the MR forum, and has been moved here. Most of the photos on this thread are an essay in artistic rendition of my own photographs processed with Photomatix software.
The LION now lives in North Dakota, but gets to travel to the east once each year to photograph on the New York City Transit.
East New York, Brooklyn
Astoria, Queens
More to follow
Neat perspective!
Everyone knows lions can’t use cameras, they don’t have opposable thumbs!
Neat shots. Been to NYC many times, don;t think I’ve been on either of those lines though. Perhaps the Brooklyn one, but it was late at night so I missed a good part of the trip, but I don’t think I went out as far as that is.
–Randy
Those photos have a ‘different’ appearance. Could it be they are photos of paintings? Or is it because they were taken with a long telephoto lens?
It may be, as you say, that a LION does not have an opposable thumb, but he can click the shutter with his tail just fine. That’s my tail and I’m sticking to it!
They are actual photos that I have taken in New York City. They have been processed with Photomatix software. Normally one would take three bracketed photos preferably in RAW format, and this software would combine the best highlights of all three photos to make a very stunning print. LION was just using it with one jpg photo and then processing with the “Grunge” filter to obtain these effects.
I have several thousand other beautiful photos of trains in the city, but unfortunately, they are not my photos and so I cannot publish them to the internet. But since they were published where I could download them, I can altar them for my personal use.
See, here is another:
ROAR
Corona, Queens, NY
Very nice and interesting pictures Lion…Nice tail action[:D]
I also think that these are really nice pictures. Especially the one at Corona. There is lots of neat track side detail in it.
I believe that Lion gets his pictures this way. Lion has camera on a strap around his neck, walks up to a human and ask the person to take a picture using the camera. Human ask why he should do that. Lion, replies, well, even though I am a very nice lion, if you don’t I will eat you. Person then agrees to take picture.[:D]
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
The way those photos are processed really picks out the details. I like how they look.
Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, upper level southbound.
Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, lower level, northbound
" TAKE THE “A” TRAIN" .
I used to take the “E” and ride in the front car.
Flip
168th Street, Manhattan (IRT)
42nd Street, Manhattan (IRT)
[Directly in front of me is the 7th Avenue Local Track, Joining it on the right is an access track to the Grand Central Shuttle, and what was formerly part of the original subway. Tunnel ways seen above are where the original tracks of the subway were located before the extensions to the IRT were built.]
McDonald Avenue, Brooklyn [Trainworld is just to the right on the street level.]
LION is spending too much time in his pew and not enough on his layout…LION has forgotten the difference between an altar and alter.
MEOW
Hey, that is Casey Stangle Yard, the home of the New York Mets is in the background (or is that Arthur Ashe Stadium, home of the US Open?)! We used to tailgate there before going to the Mets Games (free parking!)…Saw the circus train parked there a few times, and the clowns would poke their heads out the window at us…thought our beer was spiked with something.
Scary area…lots of ‘Day Walkers’. For those who don’t know what Day Walkers are, they are racoons that look drunk stumbling all over walking around at 3pm…suffering from some nurological disorder, most likely distemper. Great memories. Thanks for sharing the photos.
LIRR has tracks here too, but they do not physically connect with the NYCT tracks. The circus train would have to have been on the LIRR tracks as Federal law prohibits heavy railroad equipment from accessing NYCT tracks which are exempt.
ROAR
That is a relief…NYC had enough clowns on trains as it is…
So, they clown train would go to MSG(Penn Station) via the LIRR, and when the circus was over…they would head out and sleep in their clown cars at the Corona Terminal and Casey Stengel Bus Terminal?
Further…as Mr. Stengel once said “If you look closely, you will observe things”. Pure Genius!
Astoria, Queens