Zen in the Art of Travel Behavior:
Using Visual Ethnography to Understand the Transit Experience

I appreciate the attempts of aestheticizing the rail station.

I thought the brightly lit interior with people, so distinct and so clear in the night, was like Wes Anderson's movie "The Darjeeling Limited." It was the concept of the whole train having so much life because it was so compact, so full of people.

The lighting is perfect, as the sun permanently dissolves from the sky and the parking is lit with a red-ish tint. The tranquility of transit.

I'm very drawn to reflective pictures, ones that I can fold in half and still align the objects.

The Gold Line doesn't seem to hold many riders at night. Very contemplative moment. (Am I romanticizing my transit experience too much?)

This was a trip for tacos.

Straightforward and easy to use and clear.

Going over past the bridge to Boyle Heights, I looked out the window and realized that lights were reflecting off the windows and seemed like they were everywhere. It was beautiful.

What was the City's motivation for building a line to East Los Angeles?

I wonder what's the cost.

I approve of the aesthetics.

The Soto station is one of the most beautiful that I have seen. Very inspirational-looking, as if something in a scrapbook room.

One of my favorite effects in photography is bokeh, the aesthetic quality of blurring, especially with multi-colored lights. The second would probably be superimposing images.