Kathy & I had just left our motel in Hayes, Kansas and were speeding down the highway when I spotted this barn alongside the road. It had a very interesting character to it, the light was beautiful and I knew immediately it would make a nice photograph. But I didn’t stop.
I don’t know how it did it, but soon after I passed the barn I started hearing this voice. It said, “hey dumba$$, come back here and take my picture.” It took nearly 2 miles, but eventually I started slowing down and told Kathy, “I’m going back.”
As I was walking back to the car the farmer drove by in his pickup. I waved at him and he waved back. Maybe he had heard the voice, too. 😉
A few days earlier I had passed another barn in Colorado where there was no safe place to pull off the road, and I stewed about it for a long time. So I didn’t really want to pass this one by. But I was already in “Get There Mode” and almost let it go. I’m glad I didn’t!
Glad you didn’t, also. I have a tendency of jumping into a conversation with myself when I pass up a photo that calls to me. I also have turned around and gone back. I have also said I’d stop on the way back, which doesn’t always happen. Life is too short not to stop, even for a couple of shots. Well done!
I was glad that I listened to the voice! Sometimes it comes from the right-hand seat but mostly it is inside my own head. 😉