"Tunnel commute," New Jersey, April 2009

Tunnel commute

One way or the other, sometimes both, I descend beneath the Hudson River and pass through the Lincoln Tunnel, New York to New Jersey, New Jersey to New York.

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Thataway

I liked how the arrow for the toll lane was reflected upside down in the back of this Mustang.

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Heading in, looking back

I was tired and lazy this Saturday and didn't try very hard. This is the one and only time I pressed the shutter, and I just let it be.

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Tunnel traffic

Stopped in traffic, shooting blind shots.

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Into the tunnel

I drove into work for the first time since mid-November and it was a breeze. Thirty minutes, door to desk, on account of a clear path into the Lincoln Tunnel, no traffic in the city and a parking space one block from my office.

I figured I'd have more time to snap a photo or two at the tunnel, but I only managed three, and none came out quite like I wanted. This one was the closest, though, and it reminds me of a long exposure I took on New Year's Eve 1999, when I secured my SLR and tripod to the passenger seat of my '86 Volvo and held the cable release in my hand as I approached a Garden State Parkway toll plaza. The multi-second exposure produced some cool effects.

And this look back has produced more remorse that I haven't scanned more film frames into my computer. Must get back to that.