Sunday, May 8, 2011

The Keeper

I haven't quite decided how I'm going to share the photos and stories from our trip to Europe, but I thought I'd at least put this one out there. I felt like it was special when I took it, and I still feel that way now that I'm seeing it again.



We were making the long walk to get to the even longer walk to get to the amazing (and remote) hill town of Civita in Italy, and I caught this nun out of the corner of my eye. I stopped behind a tree, just out of her sight line, fumbled with my camera case, aimed and got exactly two exposures. I blinked, and she was gone.

It was exhilarating in the moment, and this image was the one that stayed in my mind throughout a trip filled with wonderful photo subjects.

I have no idea if it's a technically good photo, but I just keep staring at it. Like so many things in Italy, this scene feels like it could have been captured a week ago, a year ago or 50 years ago.

I took 6,298 during this trip, so I'll probably have more to pass along soon. This one was really special.

3 comments:

Jonderson said...

That is indeed a timeless shot, Scott. Glad you got the shots off!!

Hope yoru trip was fun as well!

The Rogers Clan said...

You need to share what you did?! Otherwise, how will I secretly know everything about your trip?! This is how you do it.....start from the beginning, talk slow, post a picture here and there to go along with the stories, and then say, "Then we flew home." Done!

Or you could just load them all onto flicker and send out a mass spam link to everyone in the world, and that works too.

BTW, LOVE the pic! See, now you can see how amazing you are!

Richard said...

what a great pic! it's so catchy and just simply amazing!