Under The Rainbow
I was in the car on the way to Barcelona airport, and as always had my camera at the ready. The day became a day of ‘from the car’ photographs because after I landed in Marseilles I was back in a car on my way to Bonnieux.
That part of the trip was a ‘somewhere over the rainbow’ experience because, as I entered the Luberon valley, the weather, moving fast behind a passing storm, exploded with rainbows, which appeared around every bend in the road. Rainbows are a little like shooting ducks in a barrel since you can hardly ever miss, but at 60 miles per hour the rainbow, and what it is seen in relation to, makes for a challenging set of conditions.
I love shooting from the car because there is a purity to the gesture of reaching for the image. The image is what it is, and I accept it with all its shortcomings, flaws, crazy tilts, fragmentary bits and pieces which fall in wherever they do, and in a way they refresh my seeing and remind me to stay open to the suggestive impulsive side of photography.
By the time I arrived home the sky, darkening then, flared up one last time in pure symphonic crescendo, and then went dark.
ONCE MORE AROUND THE SUN 
Joe
I enjoy your shots from the car. Before health forced me to change, (silver lining for more time to stop and look) from my previous career I specialised in road death and high speed driving as a police officer in the UK. I spent my time, ‘reading’ the road. Having to consume everything and make steps forward in order to read potential risk. I find I connect with these images as you take those moments, in a context that obviously relates, but which I enjoy reading within the context of my new life and a new way of reading. Not for risk but for connotation or punctum. Your work connects with an individual in a way you couldn’t know pressing the shutter and through blog which is superb.
Thank you again Joel. Incredibly grateful for your effort.
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Mark,
Thanks for reading the work and the blog so thoughtfully. I appreciate your comments. And I can imagine what a nightmare someone like me might be to you when you were a professional ‘road reader’, but I am careful as 50 years of shooting while driving suggests and more often than not it is just ‘reaching’ for the shot rather than framing precisely. I have learned the visual arc of my lens so well that I can be quite sure of what is in and what is out of the frame within a fairly close sense of the edges. All my best,
Joel
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Beautiful colors. I fully understand why color photography is your choice. When I look at your shots, emotions start to dance.
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