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Union Station Portfolio Statement Union Station provides an extraordinary setting to study people, motion, light, reflections and shadows. The primary function of the station is about motion, moving people from one place to another. Commuters fight to be on time, to find and arrive on the right platform before their train departs. They are subject to emotions of urgency, stress, and uncertainty that fade into relief upon reaching their platform, and finally boredom while waiting for their train. When it is time to get off the train they are often confronted with a new set of issues. They find themselves locked in a mass of bodies moving in slow motion as they funnel into the choke points of doors, stairways and corridors. Some, those in a hurry, fight to break out and to find running room. The morning light and dramatic sunrise shadows in Union Station’s modern East Portal are a photographer’s dream. At the opposite end of the station, the mission style Great Hall is covered in iconic detail and in the late mornings and late afternoons shafts of light slash across its darkened interior. Then there are the midmorning shadows on the stairways leading up to the platforms and the reflective windows on the Metro trains zooming by. Andy House