We don’t have many flat horizon vistas around here, in fact they’re extremely hard to come by unless they involve the ocean. For some reason I’ve been fascinated by photographs with a broad horizon for some time now. Maybe it’s the stark, linear lines that I’m appreciating but whatever it is, everything around here has mountains or hills in the background, which…don’t get me wrong, I love and is beautiful…is just not what I want to play with in a photograph right now.
We were driving from Vancouver to the ferry terminal in Tswwassen last month…a scene I’m very familiar with…when I realized I was looking at a small piece of FLAT horizon! I grabbed my camera and shot this out of the window. I cropped out all the blurry bits at the bottom…and voila, you’d almost think you were on the prairies. I used Flypaper’s new Painterly textures here.
I think a trip beyond the mountains to the wide open horizons…back roads, old farm houses…will be on my trip list soon. The fact that it requires driving over a thousand miles through mountains just to get to flat terrain makes one think twice but I can feel it creeping up on me!
Warm summer blessings to you dear friends,
