Random Thoughts

Make Time For Playtime by Todd Henson

They’re Here!

Putting a lot of serious effort into crafting intentional and meaningful photographs is a worthy pursuit. But sometimes it’s a good idea to just relax a bit, to let go, have a little fun. Make time for playtime.

A shaky drive down 95

The photos in this post may not be spectacular in any way. But they’re an example of not taking what I’m doing too seriously, of just experimenting a little, having fun, trying things I doubt will work and sometimes realizing I’m right but still trying it anyway.

Being light painted by passing cars

Stitches in the sky

Specifically, each photo is part of a drive south on Interstate 95 after dark (yes, I was a passenger, not a driver). They are each from a phone using an app that allowed for longer exposures, most between half to a full second. Then I moved the phone/camera around during the exposure. Because of this each photo will be unique and unlikely to be duplicated (of course the question stands whether anyone would ever want to duplicate them! 😅)

The glow below the overpass

Though it was almost 13 years ago I still fondly remember creating these that night. And I still wonder what some of the people in nearby cars thought of the crazy guy moving his phone all around as he drove by? Or were they too absorbed in their own phones to notice? 😊

Ribbons of light


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What Still Lies Ahead by Todd Henson

What Still Lies Ahead

Some scenes may lead one to stop and ponder, perhaps to contemplate one’s life, where you’ve been and what still lies ahead. But with life it’s always a little too far to see, either fading into the distance or hidden beyond a turn not yet taken. And perhaps that’s for the best, that we can’t know the future with certainty until it’s become the past. Embrace the unknown. Live with a sense of wonder and anticipation, with the hope and possibility that some of the best of our life may still lie ahead.


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The Beauty of a Gravel Road by Todd Henson

Following a gravel road

There can be a real beauty to following a gravel road over hills and through the trees with sunlight filtering through in patches of light separated by darker stripes along the length of the road. The trees and hills sometimes obscure what lies just ahead, creating that wonderful sense of mystery that pulls on one’s soul to keep driving or walking, keep moving forward, just to see what lies over the next hill or around the next turn. We become modern-day explorers discovering a new land.

What lies ahead?


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