As a manufacturer's representative and later an outside salesman who drove as much as 50,000 miles per year, I saw a lot of highways. It's different now, as I have filled the gas tank in my Passat only once this year, and my wife filled it in her SUV only two or three times. But now I'm mostly the passenger, so I have more time to shoot. And I do.
My dad was raised in Chicago, which is considerably less hilly than Pennsylvania. Forced to live here by my mother, who grew up in Berks County, he would complain that Pennsylvania's roads had been laid out by drunken cows. This may have some truth, but I think deer paths predate the cattle. Of course, the interstates and turnpikes are a different story (mostly.)
FWWIW, these are part of an ongoing project called "Drive-By-Shooting," where all the images were shot from inside a car. The project is divided into three parts: The Road (shot from a moving vehicle, the road is the subject)(these six pictures are part of that section and were shot in in Berks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties), Moving Pictures (people by the side of the road as we drove by), and Parked (people in parking lots walking into and from a store). They are all shot with a long lens.
You're right on those road, Andrew! This is a nice collection of photos with the connecting "yellow lines" in each. I really appreciated how in each photo, the yellow lines don't change. They go ever on without much attention to themselves while all around them the scenes and stories change. What a great idea!
Good to see you getting out and shooting Andrew. Those leading (yellow) lines certainly do form a solid connection between the series.
I like the idea of a project where the yellow lines are consistently used to lead the viewer into the scene as though they are the passenger. I'm not sure if your intent is to have the lines in a similar position in each shot but I think that might be very interesting.
As a passenger, the yellow lines will always be on my left. At least in Pennsylvania. If I were in England, the opposite would be true.