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Today, I was snapping some pictures on the Red Line. When this couple got on at Wilson they exclaimed "Look at the guy with the camera!" Unable to ignore their proclamation, I said hello and asked them if they wanted me to take their picture. They said yes, so I quickly snapped a photo. He said that there were video surveillance cameras in the train already (and pointed them out to me), so why care about one more? He gave me a bit of education about which places on the train were shielded from the video cameras' gaze, and replied that he had spent a lot of time on the streets when I mentioned that he seemed to know a lot of interesting stuff about the train.

The lighting was bad, though--today was quite overcast--and the first shot came out very underexposed. But then, the clouds broke and the sun shone right on them, so I asked if I could take another. Unfortunately I seem to have been having focusing/camera shake issues today (several of my shots were out of focus), and these two folks came out a bit blurry. I've tried to rectify it with some selective sharpening in photoshop, and overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, despite its many problems (there are quite a few blown out areas as well, because I had accidentally left my camera set to overexpose by one stop when the lighting was bad).

My stop came before I was able to ask them their names.