Walk Home from Shaw Metro – A Photographic Journey

Subject: Inspiration & Photography

Thursday night I walked home from the Metro and was inspired to chronicle my journey with my iPhone 4 camera (some were taken withe basic phone’s camera and the rest used the “Hipstamatic” App. It wasn’t my initial intention, but upon seeing a defaced Metro advertisement I became inspired! Below are the pictures, each taken at a different point in my walk from the Shaw/Howard University Metro stop to my house several blocks away.

Photo 1: Defaced Heidi Klum Ann Taylor Ad  /Photo 2: Weathered Metro Sign w/Rap Flyer

Photo 3: Light Sculpture Outside Shaw Library, NW /Photo 4: Crushed Four Loko Can

Photo 5: 6th & R St. Intersection Speed Sign, NW DC / Photo 6: Same

Photo 7: Arizona Tea Can in Grass /Photo 8: Night Construction R St. & NJ Ave., NW

Photo 9: Metro Bus Schedule, NJ Ave. NW /Photo 10: Radio Station “810 Music”NJ Ave., NW

Photo 11: Ghost Leaf, Warner St., NW /Photo 12: Leaf, Battery Package, Snack Pack, same

Photo 13: Stop Sign w/Shadow, Warner St. NW /Photo 14: Tagging on Brick Wall, same

Picture 15: My winter hat Mike brought me from Nepal. VERY similar to Susie Salmon’s hat in The Lovely Bones

I took the long way home in order to cover more ground and potentially have more photo opportunities. The “long way” entails walking down R Street instead of 5th Street. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I subconsciously repeated what Susie Salmon’s character in The Lovely Bones did, only differently. I took the long way home and made it there safely; she took a shortcut through a cornfield and was killed. The other similarities would be her character’s love of photography and the winter hat. Strange how art can imitate life and vice-versa.

Lens & Film Settings by Photograph #

• Photos 1, 2, 4, 12, 13, and 15 = iPhone 4’s 5-megapixel camera
• Photo 3 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: Jimmy, Film: Pistil
• Photo 5 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: John S, Film: BlacKeys B+W
• Photo 6 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: John S, Film: Pistil
• Photo 7 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: John S, Flash: RedEye Gel, Film: Pistil
• Photo 8 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: Kaimal Mark II, Film: Ina’s 1935
• Photo 9 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: John S, Flash: Berry Pop, Film: Kodot XGrizzled
• Photo 11 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: Kaimal Mark II, Film: BlacKeys B+W
• Photo 12 =Hipstamatic App, Lens: John S, Flash: Berry Pop, Film: Kodot XGrizzled
• Photo 14 = Hipstamatic App, Lens: Helga Viking, Film: Pistil