Last fall there was work started on the power lines that run parallel to a very popular commute route for me. They have been working on getting these new poles into place all winter (my guess is that they can only work in the winter as the swamps are frozen). In the past few weeks they have been making incredible progress. This morning I noticed this one line worker at the very top of this one pole and thought it would make a great shot, but continued on. I got a little farther and saw a lot more trucks with more line workers and another person half way up a different pole. The next pole down had wires hanging from it and the rest of the poles had the wires already strung. I realized that I was looking at possibly the last day of noticeable activity. I turned my car around and went back to this one worker who was luckily still hanging out at the top of the pole.

A lot of my PaD shots have happened this way this year. I drive past something and think "that would have made a great shot" and then realize that I will probably regret not having stopped for the rest of my life. One of those "go with your intuition" sort of things.

I wish I'd had more time and a better area to take this photo. Looking at this after the fact, I realize that I really needed to give this shot more context, I opted for the widest angle I had, but I think I could have conveyed more meaning had I been able to capture the line worker with the rest of the new poles in the background. Of course, this would have required me to either own a crane, or somehow climb someone's roof a 1/2 mile down the road and possess an 800mm lens.

At the very least I have a shot (well a few more that I am not publishing out here) that reminds me of the work that was going on this winter.