I studied a barn. 3.

July 9, 2012 by Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

I came across this barn, proud weathered but unvanquished eloquent somehow masterful defiant to nature, while I was driving north on Route 1 in Delaware USA. I was in the far left lane, the left turn only lane, the barn was at about 2 o’clock, and so I inched out across a solid white line, not to get far. Cars piled up, blocking me. I waited for the light to change and the cars to pass, and I pulled out, but still unable to get over to the far right, I continued for a half mile or so and u-turned it.
I took two or three or four shots of the barn, and when I edited its photograph an hour or two ago, I felt guilty, for I believe I was unable to capture the barn’s majesty. It was a gray thing, and the grayness didn’t come out of the camera. I believe I have transformed the barn, maybe, hopefully, into something for us all to wonder and awe at: The Proud Indomitable Barn at Route 1 and 16.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.