See you on the Red Line

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A moment of opportunity—cycling over the Longfellow Bridge into a late autumn sunset, I heard a train stopping at Charles/MGH behind me. Pull the bike over, perch on the crash barrier, time it juuust right and you get this:

A view from a bridge of the Boston skyline is interrupted by a red line train crossing the frame in the foreground, slightly motion blurred.

Mmm… moody

Some editing was needed later that evening as the low light was pushing my poor Fairphone 4 to its limits. I darkened the sky a bit and selectively gaussian blurred out some of the worst digital noise, only to add some finer noise for the aesthetic. I think it turned out pretty well.

A sunset view of an old Alewife-bound MBTA Red Line train crossing a bridge towards Kendall.

It turns out my fiancée was on that exact train as well. Byee!