Monday, July 5, 2010
Day 5
There's something about covered bridges I find fascinating, comforting, and serene. In high school I worked at Plain and Fancy which involved taking mostly back roads through Amish country to get there! I wouldn't have a lot of daylight to shoot on days I worked after school for my photography class. On the way to work I would stop at various places if something caught my eye. Most of my pictures consisted of Amish farms, covered bridges, Amish farms, streams, Amish farms, horse and buggies, and did I mention Amish farms? My teacher was so over my typical Lancaster County photographs. He made me push through and turn the common/typical into unfamiliar/new. From then on I always tried to take a common place and find the unnoticed aspects of that place. This is a covered bridge above Lititz that was on my way to a farmer's market I was looking for. So I decided to stop and take a picture... haven't done that in years! Reminded me of my senior year of high school, where my love for photography began!
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Love the photos so far! What kind of camera are you using?
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Here in Frederick County Maryland we have only three covered bridges; and that is half of the total active covered bridges in the whole state of Maryland. That is not very many compared to the number in Pennsylvania.
ReplyDelete-Mark Oellig
All pictures are only taken on my iPhone 4 and will not be altered in any way.
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