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Left Brain - Right Brain [ Lens4anEye ] My left brain writes a story, punctuates the sentences and proofs the content. My right brain sees the the pictures and focuses the camera to capture the images which are also the story. In reality it is usually the image side leading the context side through to the final presentation.  It takes both sides working simultaneously to get the job done. One cannot exist without the other. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but getting the picture takes far longer. I’m my world a picture is worth a thousand miles. <=== Click here for larger image ===   The usual approach is to select a destination, choose the mode of transportation and hit the road or airways, et al. While my right brain is busy getting the photography just right, my left side is recording what I think about it. Then when the images are done the words can follow. Every image tells a story and every story conjures an image.   Both aspects are essential to ge

Johnson Farm House, Frostburg, Maryland by Robert Carlson [ Lens4anEye ]   This is one of my earliest encounters with the Johnson Farm House. It had been sitting vacant for a couple of decades when I drove past it in about 1990.  The highway is US 40, also named as The National Road and extends all the way across the country to the west coast.   The location was on my route between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. That was a trip I would make 3 or 4 times a year to visit family and friend. Most of those trips were in conjunction with holidays; July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mothers and Fathers day. Interstate Highway 68 parallels the US 40 road and the house could be seen if anyone bothered to look to the side as they sped by.     Each time I reached the location just west of Frostburg, I would stop for another set of photographs which recorded the slow-motion slide toward oblivion for this once great house.