A single frame: Why and how I captured this shot
I met Dave Whitson at an airport in Salisbury, Maryland in February of 2020. We had emailed about his cross-USA hike. He planned to hike from Delaware to the Pacific Ocean, walking daily, over the spring, summer, and fall that year.
Derailed by COVID restrictions and work obligations, he paused in Cincinnati.
I photographed his progress through Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Ohio. This frame is taken early morning in Chesterville, Ohio in May of 2020. You can read the story of the first half of the journey here.
In June this year, he returned to Cincinnati to compete the journey. I walked with him in Iowa. I also joined him on his final two days walking in Oregon. He finished his cross-USA hike at Cape Meares. I’m working on a feature about his completion.
Details: Fujifilm X-Pro2 56 mm 1/60 f/11
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One never know where journeys, physical or spiritual, will lead us or the encounters one makes along the way.
Photography is one of the few jobs that let us meet so many different people in so many phases of their life — especially news and documentary work. We get a literal and metaphric “front row seat” to their experience and then we get to share it with others.