Scenes Along the Highway and Then the Highway Itself

There are the Scenes Along the Highway and then the Highway Itself

by Robert Carlson    [Lens4anEye]

 

Some highways are suited to 70 and 80 mph speeds without much fuss or bother. They are straight and flat with few other travelers nearby. One can floor the gas pedal and nearly fly along watching only the road ahead and for anything which might enter your path of travel. Click here for the full Scenes Along the Highway Album.


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The miles are both long and short. Long as in many of them and short as in each one passes in 45  to 50 seconds. The landscape is beautiful even if monotonous. Those mountains in the distance don’t change much from one hour to the next. Your peripheral views remain pretty much the same too. 


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Then suddenly there IS something. A sun bleached abode with missing planks. A horse standing in a wire fenced dirt patch. A rusty pickup truck surrounded by bald tires strewn about. You hit the brakes skidding to a stop 100 yards past.  A quick u-turn get you back to that spot where there might be a great picture waiting to be frozen in time. 


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Seeing the highway just then became seeing a scene along the highway. The opportunity might inspire a single shutter click or maybe a dozen or more. Getting the shot from the far side might be significantly better but the intervening terrain makes those prospects infeasible. You have to  settle for what is accessible. Maybe getting that drone flying camera should be next on your acquisition list. 


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 The highway can be a lonely place. Solitary travel has an appeal to many people. It can also be a time of togetherness. Even in silent travel having someone there with which to share the time is a warm comfortable experience. Getting the pictures to show and share is the reason for getting them. Dozens or thousands of people can see what you saw.

 

 

 

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Interspersed between in the long hours of road trip is the punctuation of specific places and elements which populate the Albums of photographs. Those items might be a Mail Pouch Tobacco barn, a farm house, a barn or silo, a water tower, a town which has seen better days, a railroad car or siding, or and number of other places and things. The all constitute the allure of the trip and the fond recollections of a Thousand Mile Journey. Each one of them begins with a single shutter click.





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