Rural Route Photography
There’s a genre of photography called street photography. Its focus is to capture everyday life and candid moments in public spaces — no staging, no direction. Just observation of the spontaneity of life as it happens.
Most of the time, when people talk about street photography, it’s about urban life. The subject matter is usually people in cities — what they’re up to, how they move, how they interact. When you think of street photography, you think of buildings, sidewalks, subways. You think of crowds.
For the longest time, I thought I was a landscape photographer. But I realized I was as interested in the life within the landscape as in the landscape itself — the plants and birds, how they change with the seasons. And animals, wild and on the farm. The people, too. How they all occupy the space out here, where there’s room to breathe and move. Out here on the rural roads.
What I do is street photography in spirit — it’s everyday life, candid and spontaneous — but with a different backdrop. I’m out walking the back roads, on blacktop, gravel, and dirt, camera in hand, looking to see what unfolds. I rarely stage shots, rarely use a tripod. It’s about reacting to the moment, noticing what happens when no one else is looking. That’s Rural Route Photography.
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