Even The Little Things Matter (10 images)

Riding To Lowville For Fuel

The weather was exceptional and the Star Stratoliner Deluxe had half of a tank of fuel. I put a camera in the saddlebags and headed Northeast. 75 miles later I was in Lowville refueling the bike for the ride home.

When traveling through this part of the Tug Hill area, I often stop at this spot at the intersection of Route 177 and Porter Road. There are several similar photographs on WalkaboutChronicles.com from some of those previous visits. It is a beautiful spot and an interesting convergence of high-tech windmills and traditional farmland. If you look closely, you can see an Amish buggy headed toward me from the far end of the road.

It won’t be long before rides like this must be taken in the car and photographs featuring Fall and golden hour colors will be replaced with Winter snow and gray skies.

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A Local Landmark (4 images, 1 video)

For more than 50 years, I have driven, ridden, and walked across this thing and wandered the shoreline in its shade. Certainly, I have captured many pictures of this location, but this is the first time this bridge and the drone were in the same place at the same time!

I pulled over along the road and spent a few minutes capturing the bridge and the surrounding area from the air.

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Disconnected (2 images)

I am fascinated by airports. They fill me with excitement and a sense of creativity. Within those spaces there is never a bad time of day to experience something unique. There are always new things to see and certainly countless people to watch. And while the delays imposed on us by this industry sometimes leave us spending more time in these spaces than we would prefer, our presence within these walls is a very brief portion of our lives.

Whenever I am in an airport, I am always struck by how we are all so completely disconnected from each other. Everyone is just passing through. We don’t share a cultural history, a political belief, a religion, a favorite food, a common set of relatives, a team mascot, or even a similar path through the space. It is a completely random assembly that I find fascinating to witness and experience.

The only thing we all share is being present in the moment. We are neither where we were or where we are going. We are isolated from everything we possess or will possess. We are detached from who we know and are going to know. Those are the moments we are completely open to the experience of being the moment, unobstructed by the influences in our lives. As Eckhart Tolle writes, “The present moment is the teacher. Work with that – that’s all you need, really.”

These are the moments that make my camera feel most powerful in my hands. I am forced out of my habits of composition and content, and which I will very likely fall into again when I arrive at the other end of my journey. But being disconnected during these in-between moments within an airport, my attention is narrowed to only what the moment presents, giving my curiosity and creativity opportunity to learn and thrive.

Opposites Attract

The Rouses Point Bridge, also known as the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge, connecting Rouses Point, NY and Alburg, VT, has always fascinated me. Often traveling East to West at the end of a long day experiencing points of interest in Vermont, I find myself in the small parking area attached to the bridge around sunset. For more than a decade, that spot has been the source of all my previously posted images of this unique bridge as it offers great views of the bridge-sunset combination, as well as the bridge’s curved construction. Links to these images appear below.

Finding other interesting spots where the bridge can be photographed is complicated. There aren’t many good vantage points unless a boat is involved.

Enter the drone.

A small road on the New York State side of the bridge leading to the edge of the water is the location of the original bridge. It made an excellent launching spot for the drone. From this location, at 258.6 feet of altitude, I was able to capture this image (and many others), with a brand new perspective.

You can read more about this interesting bridge on Wikipedia.

Other images of this bridge:

Launch site of the drone is here:

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