i’m a creature of habit. as in i sit in the same seat on the train in/out of boston the days i head into the office and in taking the less busy trains i do, it was a bit of a disruption (save annoyance) to my routine to find those seats filled on a return to salem train. annoyed, i headed to the upper car and plopped down thinking ok well at least i’ll have a nice / different view to look at on the ride until i realized my window was completely smeared and semi opaque. like a double “great” of course i choose THIS seat. until i looked deeper. the light that particular day was overcast - a soft box lit sky with soft bright light evenly casting a glow over the landscape. and as we began to move, i took my phone out and began photographing. the images landed as dreamlike trances framing the sea, the land and the sky in a soft gauzy blur (and’ve been semi obsessed with locating THAT particular seat to no avail since that day). the train views pair nicely with the landscape swirls i’ve been taking for many years - a slow motion pan of the scene that imparts the vibe of the moment. and as a phone photograph, they are tiny - printed to a 2x3 inch size on a 5x7 piece of paper.
