Strange Country

As a photographer, sometimes you set out to show the world as it is to your eyes. This isn't always the case though. Sometimes you want to show how the world *feels*, rather than just how it looks. This project, which I'm calling "Strange Country", aims to capture the surreal silence and loneliness of the American backroads by reinterpreting the visual reality into something ... less ordinary. If I shot film this is a project I would be shooting on Kodak Aerochrome infrared film, but as I only shoot digital I've had to "settle" for using modern solutions to achieve a similarly otherworldly look that suits the feeling of wandering the backroads of this strange country.

Strange Country
The moon loomed large in the eastern sky all through the evening and I couldn't help but be drawn to it over and over again.
Silo
A tree and a grain silo standing tall next to each other.

Down Unfamiliar Roads
My normal editing style probably can't be described as "subtle", exactly, but for this shot of a slightly wavy dirt road in rural Kansas I decided to go with something a little "more". I wanted to convey the strange quiet that filled the air out there, and the sense of the familiar and the uncanny coming together somewhere down that unfamiliar road.
Pine Moon
A waxing moon hanging in the sky above the trees as the last light of the day's sun passes through the very tops.