It’s Hot
Thursday, along with everyone else on the photo staff, I had the task of getting pictures to represent the current heat wave. Every year I know at some point the photo staff will need to cover it. Everyone knows that it's hot that's for sure. A mentor of mine once said, "our job as photojouranlists is to make people experience the world around them in a different way." In other words anyone who lives in any community sees the same things, or just about, every day. Our job as photojournalists is to show those every day things in a different way through our pictures. With that in mind I set out for the day, about 3 hours to be exact, taking that challenge head on. For several years now I have been stalking this picture of the railroad tracks. I find it interesting that of all the places in the Pee Dee the tracks seem to have the best heat waves. I have known that there was a picture there to be made but hadn't quite pulled it off to my liking. So after some experimenting with time of day, camera exposure and temperatures through the years it just seemed to have come together. I like how the heat waves make the background look almost like a painting. Is this a perfect heat wave picture? I'm not convinced of that but I feel that I got a little bit closer. Have a good summer, by the way it hasn't officially started yet, and stay COOL! John D. Russell/Morning News
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