I've decided to take a slightly different tack w/ this blog. When I created it, I envisioned a grand forum where I could showcase new photography that I've done in and around my home in Southern CA. This may happen eventually, but b/c I have little new material that I am proud of I will try something different...posting OLD stuff and writing a few comments about it. I'm going to try for 1 image/day, just to get started again.
As for this image, I took this (on 35mm Ektachrome) in 1999 in Tokyo. What really gets me is the look that this commuter has - is he going to work, coming home, just fired from a job? What is his story? I am usually bad at photographing people, so I am always happy and surprised when I get a good image that includes some humanity. This photo is lacking the depth to really make it great - there is only one layer, really (the commuter and the train) and nothing else going on - but maybe that is what makes it appealing anyway.
