Ah, that feeling when you really have only a moment to nail a shot, and you do. The symmetry here is just so good. There is only one spot from which this photo can be taken, and I found it; there were neither people nor trains in the station, which is really rare. (Someone’s standing far down on the right platform, but far enough away that they don’t disrupt the flow of the lines.)

When I posted this on social media, a few people thought I jumped down onto the tracks to take this picture. This is Kimball station, the terminal of Chicago’s Brown Line. If you’re really curious, you can find the layout of the station online, but quickly, there are three spurs, one on each side of the right platform and then the leftmost track that you see here. There’s a nice safe walkway to get you to that platform on the left; that’s where I was.

This was the cover to my 2023 calendar.

November 16, 2021. Samsung S20+ cell phone, 5.4mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 26mm), f/1.69, 1/40, ISO 250.