Pic(k) of the Week: Open road, in town

Popping the top,

Into the center of town

Rode the Galaxie 500.^*

In the United States, this weekend, Memorial Day weekend —although astronomically a few weeks short of summer— signals, for many, the calendrical start of the summer season.

Coincident with it is a wave of vacation travel. The lure of the 'open' road —and its traverser, the automobile— has long been a quintessential American motif. A popped 'ragtop' —hair, free in the breeze— can only add to that.

Image taken in the town of Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA (in 2018), where, even if nowhere near Route 66, the urge remains as impelling.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Broken Windows

By documenting an unexpected (to the observer) element in a larger scene, a photographer can create a visually incongruous juxtaposition. One might call that photographic irony. One might also state that any irony presupposes a photographer's prejudices. (One might also scoff at all this pomposity!)

So ...

Broken windows, in Chattanooga (Southside Historic District), Tennessee, USA on 28 December 2018.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Bug in the yard

As seen in Atlanta (Edgewood), Georgia, on 12 September 2017.

Why was that Volkswagen Bug there? I don't know. But...it did appear snug as a Bug in a rut.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Cool Blue Mobile

I liked the interplay of melting snow on my car window and the antique sedan across the street. It was the first snow of the 2009/10 season. Little did we know then.

Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland.
5 December 2009

"You should have opened the window," a colleague admonished. "Nope!" I replied.

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Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, often posted on Saturdays.