We spent some weeks in New York and used the subway daily. Once my wife was bleeding after she hurt herself falling on the boardwalk; I didn’t know how to help her, but a woman sitting next to my wife in the subway to Queens helped her vs. the bleeding very perfectly; then the woman told us, she had just escaped from the war in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia, Europe; New York always had a big heart and said welcome to so many refugees!
title=”On The Q” by RR’s Snap Shop (Russ Rowland), click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr
related:
dancing in the train:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/9705510/Pictures-of-the-day-27-November-2012.html?frame=2410737
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New York, history of photography, black and white gallery:
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?p=29988&mode=threaded
P.S.:
I’ve been impressed by subways too (New York + Berlin), but never made such a great composition like Russ Rowland with those birds outside the window!
4 photos below by frizztext:
related:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/underground-experiences/
http://life.time.com/history/new-york-city-subway-photos-from-the-1940s-1950s-and-1960s/#8
websites: 1 - my daily wordpress blog "flickrcomments" , 2 - photo pool at frizztext, 3 - flickr group BLOG IT!, 4 - photography news, 5 - twitter etc.
I’ve seen some very ‘interesting’ looking people on the NY subways.
I love the expressions captured. I can practically hear the hum of the tracks.
Agree, I feel the same way…
I like to hear the hum of a tractor too:
I am glad you had a good experience on the NY subway. It is one of the highlights of visiting and/or living in New York City– it’s like a movie come to life!
Russ Rowland’s picture is amazing, but yours are great too, Frizz. I love the one looking into the yellow train through the window.
Wonderful post. I’m just thinking whether the passengers don’t mind their photos taken. I’m also fascinated by subway/train scenes but I’m afraid to snap photos.
Like the Black Twig I get nervous about taking photos of people – even more so in confined spaces. In yours with the laptop guy it doesn’t look like they would notice.
The birds caught my eye immediately. Amazing shot! I worry, too about taking shots of people. I can’t help wondering if they would be bothered by the invasion, of sorts, and the posting without permission. Although the news channels do it all the time.
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Love the free birds and the trapped commuters…fabulous capture
Awesome photos!
I think the shot of the birds outside the subway window is brilliant.
Funny how we do not see what is going on outside our windows.
morning in the subway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/3040203151
your photo, Wolfgang:
Don’t you just love that big beating heart of NY!
Just love the first one! Wow
That is an amazing photo! I know others have also commented…I like your photo with the yellow train too.
Glad you had a good experience while you visited!
I’m not fully comfortable taking pictures of people on the subway… Do you ask or sneak a pix?
my wife usually asks – me sometimes not …
I love the surreal like quality of the first photo…reminded me at once of Alfred Hitchcock’s film…haha! Thanks by the way for visiting my blog on Changing Seasons / the Philippine lemon flower.