Road Trip ~ Southern Oregon
May 2010
Although degenerative spine disease has forced me off the bicycles, I still enjoy traveling the secondary roads. The Interstate Highways are fine for getting from one place to another, so long as you don't want to see or experience much. Compared to the secondary roads—state highways and county roads—the big roads don't offer much in the way of local scenery or sense of the landscape. Also, in general, the people you meet in the small communities along the smaller roads are vastly more interesting.
These photos are of subjects in "the light of the moment." Each is a situation and subject that got my attention for reasons that vary from one photo to the next. They range from the dramatic to the comical and as such they embody what a succesful road trip should be: a series of new and refreshing sights and experiences. Many of these images are in HD format (16:9 aspect ratio) consistent with a multimedia presentation that I made of the trip.
