Intersections, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2007

Intersections, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2007

I am primarily a landscape photographer with a portrait here and there. I rarely photograph textures or geometric patterns for their own sake since I like stories. This photograph, however, really captured my imagination.

During the late fall in Albuquerque, you can see hundreds of geese each day migrating to their wintering grounds. Some of the more enterprising, or perhaps lazier, geese stop at Bosque del Apache just 2 hours south of Albuquerque where you can find a congregation of up to 20,000 snow geese and similar numbers of Canadian geese.

I was walking along the Rio Grande river with my wife and spotted this typical flight formation of geese overhead. At the time I was upset that the contrails disrupted this particular frame. It is only months later that I realized the beautiful overlay of angles of flight at two levels. There is the intersection of the contrails which in turn intersect with with the V of the geese formation. But there is another intersection, between two very different kinds of flying objects. The natural world is intersecting the mechanical world created by humans.

I think there is a story here; maybe even a bit of poetry.

Enjoy!
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