Flirting with Disaster

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Category:Artistic

Subcategory:Infrared

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Keywords:#ospix, 18-wheeler, @ospix, Mirror Truck – Infrared Exposure – 5 Freeway South of Santa Nella California – 2016, Osceola Refetoff, black & white photography, dreamlike, fixed focus lens, flirting with disaster, fujifilm, graphic, highway, in-camera effect, infrared photography, melissa morgan fine art, merced county, power lines, prime lens, reflection, road, santa nella CA, sign, sky, symmetry, tractor trailer, transportation, truck, usa, www.ospix.com

A truck speeds down a desert highway with clouds reflected in its mirror-surfaced trailer. A round lens artifact hovers above.

Mirror Truck – Infrared Exposure – 5 Freeway South of Santa Nella, California – 2016

First printed: 2023

The serendipitous lens artifact was captured in camera, illustrating the quirks and rebellions of technology that thwart photography’s pretensions of authoritative objectivity and remind viewers that the photographic document is always a collaboration between a human and a machine, asking questions about truth, dispassion, control, and invention that are inherently part of how photography functions in the world.

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