A Thousand Times

I often drive by perfect scenes or interesting settings and add them to my mental “I have to photograph that” list.

My list is pretty long, and the geography of it stretches across counties and even states.

When I’m on the highway, I must drive by this little one-room schoolhouse a thousand times on my way to work. When I do, I think, “I have to grab that little building out in that field.”

Sometimes, the light isn’t right, or I don’t have time on my commute. But on this day I did, so I grabbed an old Nikon D700 we have at work and tromped out into the snowy field to photograph the little schoolhouse around sunset.

One by one, I check these little scenes off my list.