May Days Photo Backlog 1

Been away from the computer for a few days. It's been in my room where it always is only it's been busy with a temperamental Itunes app download that still hasn't completed. The Internet here at Camp Echo functions with various speeds and reliability. It will be out for a day or an hour randomly, so a download that takes 12 hours takes a huge amount of patience, and more than 12 hours. Also if I go to open my e-mail or something the download will cancel and I have to start over, as I have had to anyway. In spite of computer issues I've still been taking pictures. I have a backlog of bloggable photos, so I'll get right to it.

From atop an IP station near Diwaniya.

Passing by this same corner has netted me several good pictures just out of coincidence.

US troops, just passing through, for over six years now.

Shells of vehicles near roads are a common sight. I have to wonder what happened, abandoned and decayed after stripped or war related?

Being here feels otherworldly sometimes, but there are things that seem to common to everyone everywhere. Breakdowns, a universal problem.

Hard to convey distance in a photograph, but this girls was far off on a hill. I zoomed in and captured her. From an empty desert alone, to my blog on the WWW.

I will see a local side road or intersection coming up, and I'll ready with only a second to grab whatever is up the street, not even knowing if anything is worth shooting. This is the 1 out of 6 that I found interesting. Not sure why, I just like it.

This one has composition. It's luck. Bouncing and rumbling along I have no control over what most photographers do, so it becomes a decision of what to keep and recognizing what has value rather than what angle or approach to take with the subject.