Showing posts with label pace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pace. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Old Order



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...