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It could be you!

Who?
Do you ride the D.C. Metro? Do you have a camera phone? Can you send multimedia messages (text and pictures) from your phone? If you answered yes to all three of these questions you could be a metro.texture™-er!

What?
What the heck is a metro.texture™? It's an image that captures an essential or characteristic quality of the Washington D.C. Metro System (trains only at this time, no buses). Images must be captured on a camera phone and then sent to the blog from that camera phone. No external manipulation allowed.

Where?
I'm in search of people that can submit metro.textures™ from any of the following routes:

When?
I'll be collecting submissions on a rolling deadline, with each month having a different theme. You can find each month's theme listed in the top, righthand column of the blog's homepage. November 2007's theme is easy: Accidental Texture. (Read about my first accidental texture.)

How?
Send your metro.texture™ to the In Search of metro.texture™-ers blog at metro.texture.insearchof[a]blogger[dot]com with the following information included:

• An image title (use the subject line in your messaging program for this)
• Your name (or e-handle, if your prefer) and email (This is for my use only. I'll remove it before the texture goes live. It's just so I can get in touch with you if necessary.)
• Type of camera phone you used
  
• Line, location (station, etc.) and direction you were riding when you took the picture
• You can also include a short description of the picture, but it's not required.

So a submission might look something like this:

end of the line

Jennifer (See. No email here.)
AT&T Tilt
Red Line, Glenmont Station, toward Shady Grove
This is my morning train arriving at the station. I really like how the light from the inside of the train gives the platform a glowing quality.

I'll vet your submissions and make them go live provided they have the required info and are not offensive in any way.

Happy metro.texture™ hunting!

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I've been wanting to capture this for a while now and the delays on the Red Line this morning finally allowed me to.

end of the line

My morning train arriving at Glenmont Station.

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surpassing-est

surfacing

air source

seat back

farragut north

the 2nd accidental texture

Today is my second day back at work from maternity leave. My husband is now dropping me off at Glenmont Station on his way to deposit the baby in daycare before he goes to work. I accidentally took this picture on the escalator and it reminded me to get going with the metro.textures again.

I'm back.

Want to see the 1st accidental texture? Click here.

It's been soooo long...

But here's a recent Metro.Texture for you. My daughter on her first Metro ride...

Today was her first ride outside the womb. Of course she rode the Metro with me all the time to work while I was pregnant. And as you can see, today she was just as oblivious as she would have been then.

The End is in Sight

Farragut West Station:: Lights illuminate the end of the escalator. 

Commuter Fl-rush

Farragut West Station::

Da-na, da-na, da-na, da-na, da-na...

Silver Spring Station:: The Discovery Channel's Shark Week has a mascot. You can see his fin cresting a sea of buildings (pic #1) as you come into Silver Spring. His head, fins and tail grace all four sides of the new Discovery building. The Washington Post's pic is better than mine but I think mine tell a story, no? 

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No Bikes Allowed...

Red Line to Glenmont:: Metro's Bike-n'-Ride policy only restricts bikes by the center emergency doors.

A Room of One's Own

 

Blue Suede Shoes

 

Noise Control

Farragut North Station:: Acoustical tile.