dang
by PennyStreet

Comment by jmritz:
Dog gone dang it! I stubbed my toe! I love street. The two dimensional aspect of this keeps popping into view, I see this as shapes.

drip
by PennyStreet

Comment by kiwinick:
this is a serious cool image

image one
by PennyStreet

Comment by insteps:
Having a photographers eye, I would think, makes this daily commute more tolerable. A constantly changing view that most don't care to see. I like your essay because it's personal and true. Stark reality is a good thing to capture. Thanks.

drip
by PennyStreet

Comment by Kiwiangel:
Nice feeling of mystery in this.

image one
by PennyStreet

Comment by mariuca:
You produced an anti-essay if there is such a thing. On the other hand, there is a great collection of images very useful for a writer or as evidence for an analyst, should you choose to go cure the winter blues, the exasperation, the racing thoughts and some post insomnia symptoms.
I particularly like picture # 5, 6, 8 and 12 and that tells you something about my above mentioned symptoms!
As always, I'm your fan.

drip
by PennyStreet

Comment by tryingtostayinfocus:
Cool!

image one
by PennyStreet

Comment by ubique:
Well! What a strange essay (for me strange is a good thing).
It looks like the twelve photographs were taken by twelve different photographers using twelve different cameras loaded with twelve different films – and they do all look convincingly like film (for me film is a good thing).
I never could settle down to a smooth narrative or even a resolvable sequence (for me unsettling is a good thing).
I'm so intrigued by the choices you made here; choices unexplained even by any implication or subtle subtext that I can detect (for me intrigue is a … you know!)
Perversely, the essay succeeds as a collection by virtue of its brazen eclecticism. You've made lack of cohesiveness a virtue, and thus achieved huge interest by coming to the viewer through that unguarded back door. I've never seen another photo essay like it, and that's really thrilling for me as a viewer.
Thank you, several time over.

image one
by PennyStreet

Comment by herfotoman:
The actual experience/knowledge one gets by being this type of commuter has never been downloaded on my hard drive, being from the Lowveld in sunny RSA.

I got a feeling of opposites:
The journey is long, but through fields and city, making it more interesting, thus shorter.
The snow covers and makes industry look nicer, but makes the environment bleak and cold.
There may be hardship, but it is on the horizon.
Everything is there because of people, but without them.

Perseverance is too strong a word, muddling through more appropriate.

image eleven
by PennyStreet

Comment by Melethia:
The series is bleak but strangely beautiful in its own way, and feels suprisingly isolated and distant. Very well done.

express bus
by PennyStreet

Comment by Zoomdak:
Awesome! Love the time warp effect.