A few more photographs from my ongoing motion and landscape project. All of these, as the others, were taken in Germany from the window of a moving vehicle. I find the German landscape fascinating as it is much more compact than what I’m used to photographing in the States. The country itself is roughly the size of Montana, only with a population of 80 million, so you can imagine that city and countryside butt up against one another quite dramatically. Within the span of a several minutes one could quickly drive through a small town or village and then suddenly find one’s self looking out on fields and cows. It makes for particularly apt subject matter where this project is concerned, as there is much to see and photograph while driving (I wasn’t the one driving, don’t worry. No pedestrians were hurt in the process). I could drive for a day through Arizona and see roughly the same landscape, with a few variations here and there. Furthermore, the streets here are much narrower, and thus, one is much closer to the buildings that line the street. With a wide angle this can have quite a dramatic effect, although I didn’t go wide for all of these. Ultimately, this is about surrendering control. I try often to frame this or that, but fully realize it will never turn out quite the way I planned or saw it. But that just makes this all the more exiting for me. The best part is getting home and looking at the results.
T. Rosenberg
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