Roadside Photos

I've never realized you could be a roadside photographer until recently. In checking out other blogs and photos in Flickr, I see a lot of commentary, "I was driving to work and just had to get a picture of this..." And it only recently occurred to me that I might become one of those people. I guess that as I get more into photography, I start to notice things everywhere with a different eye.


I drive a particular route several times a week down a winding, older road with a lot of very interesting things alongside. There are dilapidated housed with overgrown porches and big heaps of sheet metal piled into lean-to sheds and little buildings. One house has a tent set up in the side yard, grown over. There are farms with cows that huddle in a wooded section of their pasture and a little run down shed really close to the road that I can't figure out what is was used for.

So I've started tossing the camera on the passenger seat next to me. And on a beautiful fall morning, I will just pull over and shoot.


I've started a set here.