Never Say Never

As is always the case after admitting to not being much of a landscape photographer in my last post I found myself exploring the farmland near our home just outside of Zürich. On my bicycle and with trusty camera around my neck I spent three days taking advantage of the warm weather. The first image was made on the fringe of the Katzensee [loosely translates as Cats Lake].

Its basically mistake in that at the moment of exposure I was startled by a passing car. As you can see from this image I'm literally standing on the side of a very well traveled street.

So, I guess you could say that its a collaboration to some degree. Just at the moment of exposure some guy yells out his window startling me causing the camera to shake and viola! - instant pictoralism. Art at it's finest to be sure.

This image is more intentional in that the lens was out of focus when I looked thru it.

Deciding that it "spoke" to me I made the exposure. A colleague suggested that it evoked more emotions than a straight photograph might have.