JPHarr's Fotothing

I often must travel the same roads. It gets boring. Not enjoying boredom, I have a couple of tricks.
One is that I always refer to a state map. If the return trip is not on a strict schedule, I get off the interstate highway and take state roads, or any back road that takes me in the same general direction, even if I have to zig-zag. I have found it almost universally true that while the highway system allows for faster travel, many of the two-lane roads allow a more direct route, and I therefore almost always spend nearly the same amount of time traveling. And when there is a significant difference ~ or if I'm stopping to take a lot of fotos! ~ I just skip my lunch break. This is infinitely more fun.
The other trick, and this I find fascinating, is to see things with what I call "new eyes." I pretend that I am seeing any particular place for the very first time, and that every little detail is interesting. For truly, if I found the place fascinating the first time, it still is. All I need to do is to stop taking for granted what I think I know, and to look again. If you try this, and really study the landscape, the cities and farms, the people and their habitats, forests and waterways, you will see that there is something to study in every square foot of any place we go. And really, isn't that we are hoping to express with our fotos? Sometimes I just need to show it to myself again before I show you.

CHEERS, BUDDIES! =)