Light at the end of a Union Station tunnel
While walking through L.A.’s Union Station, Val Blakely stared down each of the tunnels leading up to the Metrolink platforms.
“I was captivated by the light that was pouring into the tunnel and then the light fading to shadows,” Blakely said.
Blakely chose his scene carefully. Not just any tunnel would do.
“That is when I spotted the backlight silhouetting a person walking up the tunnel toward the platform and knew this was the photograph,” he said. “I hurried to manually adjust my camera settings and took the shot.”
Blakely used a 1965 Leica M2 with a Voigtländer 35mm f/1.4 lens and Kodak Tri-X 400 film to make the image.
To see more of his photos, visit Blakely’s Flickr page.
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