Probably the most serendipitous photo I've ever taken - a test exposure trying to get the tailpipe of the old truck and the sky in focus while keeping the histogram usable. The camera was lying on the ground, about 8 " from the tailpipe, but I had to handhold the angle to include the rusted truck bed, so I was shooting blind. The aperture should have been smaller to get the contrail in focus but, after several tries with a smaller f/stop, I wasn't able to duplicate the 'flare' on the 'horizon', so I went with this OOF frame. The black object on the horizon is the tie-down hook on the truck bed.
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Thanks, Don, for the ribbon, it means a lot... and thanks to all for the comments.
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Love the incredible depth and energy achieved here, notwithstanding the grounded mystery that drives so much of your work. What bothers me is the little offset extension of the flare trail in the upper left of the image. My sense is that the composition could be even more dynamic with the horizon shifted by corresponding length upward, keeping the eye within the image, instead of beckoning outward...
So very good and odd. A great combination for me. Love the dramatic lighting and crusty, rusty detail in the foreground, and the smooth but scratched plane that separates the pipe for the dreamy sky. The intriguing squiggle provokes all sorts of guesses.
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