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Fear not, that suspicious looking fellow approaching on the right would be my buddy Mitch. Can anyone tell me which station this is inside the DC metro? I seem to have forgotten.

*Updated: I believe this is L’Enfant Plaza based on Evan’s detailed comment. Thanks Evan

**Updated: Ok, I’m changing this to Metro Center based on multiple answers and Jason’s analytical response. Hopefully this is the last we’ve heard from this thread

1. How many shots was this panorama?

   sharpshoota_NYC 4/2/07
   

2. from my knowledge, metro center. Haven’t lived down there in 8 years, though. Great shot!

   christian dba in nyc 4/2/07
   

3. This just blows my mind. Great picture!

   Orsino New Yorker in Greatest City in the World 4/2/07
   

4. sweet shot.

   K student in Buffalo, NY 4/2/07
   

5. sharpshoota: I think it was about 10 shots. I actually cropped a bit off the sides cause’ it was so wide.

   jimmie cornershots guy in nyc 4/3/07
   

6. This station design is from where the routes cross – they are all the same. It has to be Metro Center, Gallery Place or L’enfant Plaza

   Mike in New York 4/3/07
   

7. Fascinating panorama,

   Jesus Engineer in MAdrid 4/4/07
   

8. Very good composition and colors! Really good panoramic

   Osiriums Ventaka in Portugal 4/4/07
   

9. It’s the Metro Center: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Center_%28Washington_Metro%29…don‘t you love wikipedia!

   Orsino ninja/CEO in New York 4/4/07
   

10. Pretty sure that’s L’Enfant Plaza….the board (maybe) says Branch Ave., which would be the last stop on the Green line. Def not Gallery Place (here the distance on either side of center concourse is the same, at Gallery Place they’re not even close). And Metro Center is not served by the Green line. Which leaves just L’Enfant Plaza. Hope this helps…and maybe another commenter can offer a better analysis.

    Evan GIS tech in Petworth, Wash, DC 4/5/07
    

11. I have been trying a lot of these panos lately using Autostitch, but it’s not easy when there are a lot of people are walking through the shot (lot of ghosting).

    This is a stunning shot Jimmie! well done

    some random dude electronic engineer in London, UK 4/8/07
    

12. This is actually depressing. Everybody else gets these beautiful, bright, spacious stations, and we get a crumbling subway. I don’t even want to imagine the dank, dark panorama a NYC station would give.

    Bicentennial Man 4/9/07
    

13. Awesome! Great work. Made it directly on my desktop.

    DK Ninja would be nice, but I am not. in Shanghai, China 4/9/07
    

14. This is definitely metro center. Evan makes good observations, but L’Enfant Plaza’s lower concourse is way off center too (though not as bad as Gallery Place). Only metro center has a lower concourse in the exact center of the station, which this appears to be. I believe the platform monitors are listing the next trains to Shady Grove (abbreviated Shady Gr). But the best evidence that this is metro center are the lights at the opposite end of the concourse, in the very middle of the panorama: they are the stained glass sconces at the 12th & F exit of metro center (which comports with this being taken from the Shady Grove platform), and L’Enfant Plaza has no such lights in any concourse.

    jason analyst in DC 4/10/07
    

15. Ah, yes….Jason, you’re correct. As much time as I spend on Metro platforms (especially all of the transfer stations listed here), its too bad I wasn’t able to pick up on this. Keep up the great photography, its much enjoyed.

    Evan GIS tech in Petworth, Wash, DC 4/11/07
    

16. Diggin your site. I especially like the flexible layouts for both horizontal and vertical shots. What’d you use to do that?

    ixley Pterodactyl in Brooklyn, NY 4/16/07
    

17. VERY cool panorama, beautiful!

    pfeel eraser in Brooklyn, NY 6/5/07
    

18. What a sweet pano. all the lines on the tracks and especially the ones on the ceiling make for an awesome candidate for wide angle.

    Jason Photographer in New Orleans 8/20/07
    

19. wow! would love to know how you did this. And more importantly – how you got away with it! I heard the moment you take out a camera in the DC metro – you get kidnapped by the FBI and shipped off to Gitmo.

    frisky Geek in London 8/22/07
    

20. un-freakin-believeable!! awesome shots. wow.

    gray night ninja in NYC 8/22/07
    

21. [...] Der Blog ist trotz enger Themenwahl sehr umfangreich. Es sind u.a. viele schöne Nachtaufnahmen dabei. Neidisch bin ich ebenfalls auf einige Panoramaaufnahmen, wie z.B. diese Metrostation. [...]

    Karsten Pilz-Glombik | Photoblog: Cornershots 2.0! 1/12/08
    

22. Jimmie-

    We are possibly interested in using this photo for Popular Photography Magazine and are wondering how you did it. Please contact me at 212-***-6154 or *****@hfmus.com

    Linzee Karasik art assistant in new york city 3/21/08
    

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