About Abstract Photography: Passing, Still
In Passing Still, places are observed fleetingly through the windows of moving cars, buses, and trains. Panning movements, calibrated to the speed of travel and distance to the subject, are employed to track a single roadside object, keeping it relatively focused and still within the frame. Simultaneously, a slow shutter speed captures parallax effects across the image sensor, resulting in complex layers of blurred, gestural, and explosive lines and shapes. These images are meticulously edited in Adobe Lightroom, in a process reminiscent of painting and drawing, to further enhance abstraction and spatial complexity. Through Scott Jost Photography, these images reveal how the camera and the speeding vehicle together transform our perception, reordering conventional notions of photographic landscape, beauty, and memory.
