Photo diary: Muni-cise
From Muni rider @ericaashleyyy
this guy doin pushups on muni… sit down! lmao
We’ve seen plenty of pull-ups in our day, but never someone down on the floor rockin’ the push-ups. Bravo!
Photo diary: Rainy-day friend
Rider Andi sends us this sweet photo and says:
I took the attached picture of two ladies sharing an umbrella on the 16x. This was taken Tuesday (4/20) at 7:45ish.If only the Muni buses didn’t leak in the rain….
And there are those damned blue seats again.
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A pair of off-track F-Market sightings
Whereas Telstar Logistics spotted his piggy-back streetcar along Interstate 80 East near Park City, Utah (above) earlier this year, Tara peeped this one (below) heading south on 280 the other day. Pretty darn cute, right? Oh, 1080 and 1096, come back and see us soon, please.
Photo diary: 1,000 tiny Muni buses
Photo by smallerdemon
I realized that the weekend’s sunshine was one big tease when I opened my eyes this morning to the rain. But rider “smallerdemon” sent us this photo, which looks even more amazing if you click it and view it in its large format. This makes enduring the rain almost worth it…
Photo diary: Stand back, please
Photo by Flickr user __mikey
“They say to stand behind the yellow line. I was on it.”
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Photographer Kristen Holden: Love Stories on Muni
Photographer, poet, and model Kristen Holden‘s pictures of Muni riders have caught our eye for a while. We found her on Flickr as “SFLoveStory” and tracked her down to find out what makes Muni such a great subject. Holden grew up in Chicago and has lived in San Francisco for almost seven years. She lives in Russian Hill with her musician boyfriend and their “talentless dog.”
What is it about Muni that inspires you to take photos there?
This simple answer is: I ride a lot and I shoot my surroundings more than I do anything else. But what makes Muni rife for photographic capture is that the exterior environment is always changing around the same structure or, like, bones of the scene. There are endless characters to make up stories about.
What’s it like taking pictures on Muni?
I think people generally assume I’m a tourist. Once in a while someone will ask me about my camera and why I shoot film (I’m currently shooting with a second-hand Canon EOS Elan II SLR with a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens.)
Got a favorite Muni line?
I ride the 45 and 30 to get from Russian Hill, where I live, to downtown and vice versa. I take the 47 and 49 quite a bit. Oh, and I’m one of those weird people who actually rides the 19…it gets the closest to the film-processing center I go to in SoMa. I love the cable cars and streetcars too. The mint-green colored streetcar from Brooklyn (Car 1059?) is my favorite.
You can see more of Holden’s photographs on her website, Kristen-Holden.com.