Posts Tagged: retro

What’s New is Old Again

Afternoon Edition 4. Oakland CA. April, 2011.

I am now on the fourth run of The Afternoon Edition, wherein I explore the environment around my place of employment. It looks like a very rich area for exploration, except there is an official warning to not venture into the neighborhood to our immediate West as there have been problems. Anyway, this shot uses a Lightroom preset downloaded from flickr friend underthewaves called Ultimate Vintage. It sure worked on this one.

Retrograde Commute part 1

El Cerrito Plaza Station, El Cerrito CA.

El Cerrito Plaza Station, El Cerrito CA.

I catch the BART in El Cerrito. Often, but completely accidentally, I find myself on the Fremont train to downtown Oakland. I say accidentally because it could just as easily be the San Francisco/Milbrae train. When it is the Fremont train, it waits at Macarthur Station for the SF train on the other line, so that people can transfer. And it waits to allow that train to pull out first. That leaves me with the views pictured below, which I am intrigued by. I’ve playing around with some different processing approaches. These are the full frame versions. The next post will present the square crop versions.

El Cerrito Plaza Station, El Cerrito CA.

El Cerrito Plaza Station, El Cerrito CA.

Macarthur Station, Oakland CA.

Macarthur Station, Oakland CA.

Macarthur Station, Oakland CA.

Macarthur Station, Oakland CA.