Dissection 005
five frames and a reaction
There’s a less direct route that leads to my in-law’s house. We discovered it one day when our usual path got cut off due to a bridge closure. Most of it runs through fields and hillsides, on a meandering road where cell signal drops off a cliff.
We’ve taken the route often since discovering it. It’s pretty, a less boring drive. We even tried it in winter once but…that was a mistake. This particular image was shot in October, towards the tail end of the season, the very first time we were there. And I remember the impulse behind it perfectly, I remember the exact spot as well: coming off the route secondaire, just as the landscape opens up. I saw the clouds behind the barren fields, brown and beige and anxiously waiting for snow. I stopped the car on the side of the road, surprising the family for a few seconds…until they saw me reach for my camera—“dad’s taking a picture!”.
I told them I’d be quick.
Image 1 – 11:20:18 AM: the hills, the sky. Then I hear a car…
X-PRO1 ISO 250 1/100s f/9 35 mm
Image 2 – 11:20:33 AM: I wait and hit the shutter as it drives by, hoping for the best.
X-PRO1 ISO 200 1/110s f/9 35 mm
Image 4 – 11:21:10 AM: the road ahead.
X-PRO1 ISO 200 1/100s f/9 35 mm
Images 5 – 11:21:20 AM: I turn around and Cynthia’s looking at a map…an actual paper map? It’s 2014…we didn’t have iPhones yet believe it or not.
X-PRO1 ISO 250 1/100s f/9 35 mm
Total elapsed time: 1m02s.
I did say I’d be quick ;)
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Chaos and unpredictability. These, for me, are the foundations of our craft. Learning to react, learning to be ready, learning to identify. Needless to say, image 2 was the keeper.
That car made my day.
