Sights and Insights
On the drive back from Florida in February, we detoured to the Eastern Shore of Maryland to visit the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Museum. I was taken by the countryside but limited on time. So I experimented with drive-by shooting through the window of a moving car using rapid burst mode with fast shutter speeds. Admittedly these are cheap shots, but could one or two find their way into my open-ended Country Roads series of composite photos?
Previous posts on this blog featured pictures from the Country Roads: An Uncommon Take series including Nos. 3 and 11 in 2018 and Nos. 36, 44, and 50 in 2017. I posted an earlier version of “Broken Windows” in No. 50. The current version posted here is the final one as it was exhibited in March at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading, PA. “Tarred Awt” is a wordplay on the colloquial pronunciation of “tired out.” Those unfamiliar with local renditions of English in Pennsylvania Dutch country may not get this, and even those who are familiar with the accent sometimes need to hear it pronounced rather than in print to understand.
Additional photographs in this series are posted in blog posts Nos. 36, 44, and 50 in 2017 and No. 3 in 2018. You can also see many of the photos in this series collected in one place on my website at http://jayressler.com/crds.html.
These studies were shot in mid-February of a foggy day following a light snow.
I am exhibiting these pieces at the Farm Earth Exhibit at Studio B, 39A Philadelphia Ave, Boyertown, PA.
From Christmas Eve Eve at Lake Ontelaunee.
