swekarl

With digital cameras so small and affordable, why don't we share pictures from our commute more often? I'll try to upload a photo as often as I can, here's the first one! (I hope it works...) Please upload, and submit a short description of the photo like I've done here.

Time: 7:22 pm
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: Shattered showers the whole day, but not as I biked home. It had just got dark and somewhat cold. You can see the Stockholm Globe Arena on the pic, in the background of the quite recently opened bikepath.

Corsaire

[Time: 7:22 pm
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: Shattered showers the whole day, but not as I biked home. It had just got dark and somewhat cold. You can see the Stockholm Globe Arena on the pic, in the background of the quite recently opened bikepath.[/QUOTE]

That's Globen, I haven't seen in long while, bring back memories I thought I never had.... did you take it from Ringvagen ?

Corsaire

swekarl

Nope, from Nynasvagen, outside the city. So Ringvagen is located about a kilometer on the other side of the Globe.

gonesh9

My own bicycle autobahn each morning/evening....



Or if I feel like taking a more hilly route....

timmhaan

my legs are twitching just looking at that. looks like a great straightaway.

mtessmer

Great pics!!!! I'll have to dig out my camera.

Kodama

What a coincidence, I had been planning to start a Commute Pic of the Week thread in order to promote carrying my digital camera more often. Anyway here is the first picture I've selected.

The is the Sammamish River, taken from a bridge just after I exit the trail that runs along it. You can see a bit of the trail to the right.

s1102879

*kicks self for not bringing the camera tonight*

swifferman

That is awesome!

I've never seen a path like that. Where is it?

caloso

I took this one in February.

Time: 7:00 am approximately
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA: Sacramento River bike path heading north from the Pocket towards Downtown.

thechrisproject

https://www.bikeforums.net/commuting/66009-beauty-commuting.html

gonesh9

It's the Springwater Corridor in Portland, Oregon. I live 2 blocks away from an entrance, and ride it all the way downtown to work every day.

If you ride the other direction, it goes for about 20 miles away from town, although some of the path isn't quite as nice, but still better than nothing...

swekarl

I can't get contact with my ftp server from work it seems, so here's another thumbnail, from my commute this morning. Cloudy but surprisingly warm.

This is my favourite part, downhill on the big bridge that connects the city (in front of me) with the near suburbs (that I bike from). Not me on the photo (I'm holding the camera!).

This is Stockholm, Sweden, for you who didn't read my first post.

ijens

swekarl: Nice pics. Where do you live and where do you work??
I myself live on kungsholmen and work in kista.

I just discovered this forum - great stuff! and fun idea for a thread - will try to shoot some on the way home today.

br/jensa

swekarl

Yes, do shoot! I live in Gubbangen/Enskede and work in Vasastan. So my commute is basically Nynasvagen, Gotgatan, Gamla stan, Torsgatan - quite a nice trip. I used to live on Kungsholmen before and then I biked to Kista once.

Corsaire

Having lived in Stockholm for few years in the past, I can say that's a nice commute route, specially Gotgatan and Gamla Stan, I just hope you use the very narrow streets....

Corsaire

ijens

My digital camera died in my bag on the way home today. So instead of a 4Megapixel shot i took this 0.1Megapixel one with my z1010. I think the darkness of the evening made it a bit crappier than it has to - I'll shoot some more on the way to work tomorrow, see if they turn out better...
Anyway, the weather was great this afternoon! Warm, no rain, scattered clouds and no wind - I just had to make a bonus ride through 'södermalm' on my way home :-)

br/jensa

Corsaire

The only "problem" with Stockholm is that there are not real hills, almost flat as a pancake.....

Corsaire

CommuterKat

Here are some from my ride home today. I still can't get the d*mn pics in the message body, so thumbnails will have to do for now. Enjoy the foliage!

Kodama

Pictures from yesterdays commute. Just to give a more accurate feel for Fall in the PNW I thought I'd post a drizzly gray day for a change. Second pic, is the evening ride home this time on the road. Finally a picture of one of many trees that are putting out berries. The Berries are clustered and more orange than the picture shows and are similar to holly berries. These aren't holly trees though, anyone know what they are?

swekarl

It's mountain ash! They are flowering in Sweden too now.

Very nice pictures! I like so much to see what roads and bikelanes look like in other parts of the world. Yes, it's true!

Today I chose to bring my training clothes instead of the camera - I feel I can't take both since the camera needs its camera bag and probably would get quite damaged by a wet towel... I long to publish more Stockholm pictures for you!

BenyBen

This is bike path I take to work every day. (Didn't take those pics myself)



It ads 2 km to my ride, but it beats sharing the road with cars all the way through. The only sad part is when I need to go into the industrial area around where I work. There's an exit off a busy highway there, and lots of trucks/cars comming in. But the bike path I get to take makes up for it.

swekarl

Beautiful BenyBen! Where is that?

Kodama

Thanks, I did some searches and it looks like it is Mountain Ash. There are a bunch of them all along the trail and they flower beautifully in the spring and of course these pretty fall berries.

I look forward to seeing your pictures of Stockholm, a city I'd like to cycle in some day.

ijens

Two pics from todays ride home from work.
This is Kista just north (ten kilometers or so) of Stockholm/Sweden.




yeah, i know the picture quality sucks but bear in mind they are taken using the camera on my cell phone.