motion – Steel City Snapper photography

There wasn’t anything to panic about really, but the blog title suits the slightly disturbing and frenetic imagery that resulted from these two attempts to track a Tube train with my camera as it pulled into the station. Tube Panic is also, incidentally, the name of an arcade videogame from Nichibutsu that I remember enjoying back in the 80s.

While I don’t think these attempts at capturing motion were fully successful (or even partially successful for that matter) I still like them. There’s enough detail to realise what you’re looking at, but it’s distorted enough to make them nice an abstract.

Maybe next time in London I might try burning through a full roll of film taking similar shots to see how successful I am. Maybe I could make a contact sheet and circle the best ones with a grease pen. 🙂

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!