American Flag on Freeway Overpass
I like this photo for two reasons and neither is because it's a good photo in the classical sense.
I was crossing the freeway on Route 1 in New Jersey when it caught my eye. As mentioned in my earlier post, flags had been more abundant than usual marking the July 4th holiday and for whatever reason they were catching my eye. This one did so because it was "backwards." I scooted past, noted the reversal and carried on. Then I realized that flag was probably always there and it wasn't hung for me. It was hung for the freeway-goers below. It's a flag like so many I'd seen before as I sped beneath them. I'm usually down there on the highway, not up on the local streets, not up where things move slower. That little moment made my freeway-free rule real.
And it was quickly followed by something else nearly impossible on the freeway, the immediate U-turn. I will probably be making a lot of u-turns over the coming days to make photos that otherwise would pass me by. Even though I'm wearing my camera over my shoulder and around my neck, I need my right hand on the throttle, not poised with my finger on the shutter. Hip-shooting just isn't an option. You understand.
Make pictures.
I was crossing the freeway on Route 1 in New Jersey when it caught my eye. As mentioned in my earlier post, flags had been more abundant than usual marking the July 4th holiday and for whatever reason they were catching my eye. This one did so because it was "backwards." I scooted past, noted the reversal and carried on. Then I realized that flag was probably always there and it wasn't hung for me. It was hung for the freeway-goers below. It's a flag like so many I'd seen before as I sped beneath them. I'm usually down there on the highway, not up on the local streets, not up where things move slower. That little moment made my freeway-free rule real.
And it was quickly followed by something else nearly impossible on the freeway, the immediate U-turn. I will probably be making a lot of u-turns over the coming days to make photos that otherwise would pass me by. Even though I'm wearing my camera over my shoulder and around my neck, I need my right hand on the throttle, not poised with my finger on the shutter. Hip-shooting just isn't an option. You understand.
Make pictures.
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