Tracks. Footprints

What exactly makes a person a photographer? Oh sure, you may say, ‘They have a camera’. That would be an accurate statement assuming it includes that ubiquitous device we seem to be unable to look away from…you know…our phones. Being in a reflective mood this afternoon, as I studied the image I’m sharing here, it occurred to me that ‘the device does not make the man/woman/artist/photographer’. Pursuing my favorite ‘word tool’, an online Thesaurus, I came across the term ‘sentinel’. More often associate with an observer with a pair of binoculars’ posted up to detect invaders, it strikes me that indeed, THAT’S what makes this photographer a photographer. To the consternation of friends and family, I’m always stopping the car, interrupting the movie or pausing on a perfectly Zen walk, to make a photo of whatever I ‘spot’. In this case, I spotted these tire tracks in the dust of a construction site. As unique as finger or foot prints, these trails that denote the ‘passing this way’ of a vehicle, literally stopped me in my…..wait for it….tracks. Why the Blue you may ask? I felt like it. That’s another thing these ‘photo types’ tend to do: interpret.