You always seem to see the best photo opportunities when you're cruising down the highway with no way of stopping. Would make the kid grab the wheel and let me shoot but don't have any kids. Been trying to remember to bring the camera along on the occasions that I'm riding shotgun rather than driving.
We went for a jaunt down to Frankfort, Kentucky today, which is about an hour of highway driving each way, enough for some shotgun shooting. Since coming across Andrew Bush's Vector Portraits project, where he strapped a medium format camera to his car to shoot portraits on the highway, I've been itching to do a little high speed street photography.
Tried it a few times before, but today was the first time with a lens longer than 70mm. That helped, but it's still more challenging than your pedestrian variety street photography. Not fully satisfied with today's results but they're still fun, don't know of any other place that you can catch people unawares quite like this.
Got back to Louisville just in time for Friday evening rush hour on the Watterson Expressway, which is its own special sort of scene. In the wintertime it comes with an added bonus of driving into the setting sun if you're headed west. The next two exits from here are permajams if there's more than three vehicles on the highway.
Louisville drivers and birds may fly but those MD-11s sure as hell ain't. Month and a half ago, a UPS MD-11lost an engine on takeoff and crashed just south of the runway here, killing 12 and injuring 23. Few days later, UPS and later the FAA grounded the rest of the trijets and we've had a flock of them roosting out at the edge of the airport since. Think this has just about run out of road, who else shoots from a moving vehicle on occasion?
