Seeing 2011 (#133)

Note: the original image for this post has been re-processed and replaced due to severe pixelation in the original rendering of the photograph. While to my eye the small version on this entry also has some disturbing pixelation, the new full-sized version does not.

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For your consideration: a brief sketch of objects in high places which in their own right imply occupants past and present, all engaged in high-wire acts with uncertain destinations.

To date I've visited twenty-six of the United States' fifty; like many once and future business travelers my haunts tended towards the right and left coasts. Middle America served largely as an impassive, passing tapestry of scenery seen through narrow portals of blessedly hardened glass at 30,000 feet. On parade far below, spanning the horizons for much of each flight: the "overflight" States.

I knew of rumors of inhabitants in such places, but despite ribbons of roadways and tapestries of city blocks strewn hither and yon, actual animate evidence of such beings was as lacking as the absentee sources of tennies tossed over telephone line.

Overflight Soles, #2803

© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: May 26, 2011; Canon 20D; f/11 @ 1/100 sec; —1 EV; ISO 200; Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 @ 13mm

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