West Texas - a place where you can travel at the speed limit of 75 miles per hour all day and the land is flat nothingness to the horizon in all directions. Native flora and fauna are rare to nonexistent; the land is a mono-culture of cotton and wheat farming. There are very few trees. Man-made structures mostly consist of metal irrigation systems, some concrete highways, a few power lines, windpumps, a railroad line, grain elevators, and the occasional oil pumpjack. The roads are straight with not much to see. The population is sparse and buildings are few and far between. A near decade-long drought has rendered everything parched and barren. From May-September temperatures regularly exceed 100 F and October-April temps are often below freezing. Dust storms can reduce visibility to zero for days; tornado warnings are commonplace.
In my travels around West Texas, I have developed a photographic technique I want to showcase in this gallery. I drive on a highway and set the cruise control on my car to the speed limit of 75 miles per hour. I look for anything to break the monotony of the journey. When I see something interesting, I pick up my camera with my right hand, turn it on, and set it to point and shoot mode. I keep my left hand on my car's steering wheel, after all, I'm going 75 mph! Through the windshield glass, I quickly compose my shots and snap individual frames (no burst shooting). It's a multi-tasking bonanza.