Busy traffic

When in New York,  took the opportunity to visit Grand Central Station with the express purpose of taking inages for this exercise.

I chose two viewpoints on the balcony: one taking the image from the end, the other sideways on.

The first image was taken ot 0.5 sec shutter speed, deliberately to emphasise the movement.

The second image was taken using 1/20 shutter speed. This image, by virtue of the faster shutter speed and a slightly higher elevation, demonstrates well the randomness of people's movement across the concourse.

This exercise was enjoyable to do - I had a preconception of what would work before going to Grand Central Station. The busyness of the station is emphasised firstly by the motion blur, and secondly by using a wider composition. Despite the motion blur, the first image works less well due to looking along the concourse; the concept is better demonstrated in the wider and flatter second image where the randomness of the movement is more evident.