About the Image(s)

On April 20, 2026, the day for the running of the Boston Marathon, I found myself in a very crowded car on Boston's subway system. I wanted to grab a photo conveying the sense of how tightly we were packed together. I almost always have the camera right up to my face, so I can look through the viewfinder, but photos taken that way were not working. The only thing I could think to do was to hold the camera high above my head, point it into the crowd and "shoot blind." This is the result.

Camera settings were 1/400 sec, f 3.5, and ISO of 6400. Those settings could and should have been varied quite a bit, starting with lowering the ISO, but I didn't have the presence of mind while packed in with that crowd, to do that. Photo was taken with my Canon R7 and an 18-150 mm lens set at 18 mm.