Sometimes I love to snap photos while driving where I'm focused more on the road ahead of me than what is being snapped (as it should be). But it's an experiment I do every once in a while to see what results. It's not that I do it completely blind. I do plan to make sure no telephone poles are in the way. I seek out what might make a nice scene and then I just snap as I rush by. When I return home, I upload what's been shot and see if there's anything that tickles my fancy.
Here's one I took on my birthday, while driving home. I am lucky enough to reside rurally amongst a settlement of Mennonites, both old order and new order. There are also a lot of Dutch farms surrounding me. But the way you can tell a farm is a Mennonite farm (besides the fact that most of them appear much too spotless and organized to be real), is the fact that the barns are generally white with green roofs.
I love the way this barn peeks out amidst the flash of trees. I also love that this photograph is taken in such a rush, whizzing by, capturing a world that unfolds at a much more even, temperate pace than the rest of the world surrounding it. It's a nice contrast...
It is a nice contrast, and a lovely capture.
ReplyDeleteIt has such an unusual quality to it, I thought at first that it was a pencil drawing. And I would never have seen the barn if you hadn't pointed it out.
this is an amazing photograph and i feel like i was behind the lens....
ReplyDeleteI've started doing this too lately...although not while I am driving...as a passenger. It is a fascinating way to photograph...it is a good way I think to express the movement of time...or our movement in time anyway.
ReplyDeleteI got to try this out myself. Made a great shot, that one...
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