My friend and pbase student Dandan Liu, had been making pictures of me on board an abandoned passenger car on a rusty siding in this tiny Oregon town. (See: http://www.pbase.com/image/65001081) As I left, she kept on shooting, and using the powerful leading lines of the rusted track, she creates a masterfully composed image of a photographer in search of an idea. In shooting me from behind, she creates superb abstraction, one that gives me a view of myself that I have never seen before. The tiny abstracted figure offers scale incongruity, and the color a touch of melancholy. I never did find that idea. You can see this image, as well others she made on this Oregon photo trip, in her pbase gallery at http://www.pbase.com/celestine/oregon06