Somnambulance

I went out for a walk today, looking for something to photograph. After it gets dark, the options for a photograph can be limited. So I wandered around in the dark for a while and then decided that I would do something I tried a while back. I just opened up the shutter for 10 seconds and walked up the street. You can see the red tail lights, the yellow headlights, and the green traffic lights.

Pictures like this can be a lot of fun to take. You never can be sure what you are going to get. The results can be striking, or they can be chaotic, or they can have distinct patterns. Some of them are blurry, some are not interesting, and sometimes you just aim wrong and miss where the lights are all together.

Abstract art is a funny thing. Someone can see something beautiful where others just see a mess. What I see in this picture is a car parked at the light when it turns green. Then it accelerates through the intersection toward me. Other cars pass by moving away, but they don’t stop, and they probably don’t know, nor do they care, that they are being photographed.

Aside from the picture, the project is now 1% of the way to the goal of $1000. That probably doesn’t seem like much, but, right now, few people even know that I’m doing this, so it is kind of a big deal to me. And I’m feeling pretty optimistic that over the course of the next year I’m going to be able to meed that goal.

Thanks.