random post about Annie Leibovitz

I checked out one of her photo books from the library a while ago. Actually it’s like a giant Annie Leibovitz anthology…anyway one of the photos was a black and white photo of the I-5 exit at Mercer Street in Seattle, which is what I live next to. I really liked that photo (I can’t find it on the internet for show and tell since apparently it’s not so famous), it was raining and gray and it was taken from the inside of the car, and you could see the Mercer st. exit sign with the windshield wipers…I couldn’t explain what was so good about it, but I liked it…actually this happens to me with a lot of photographs which are just hauntingly beautiful to me (like most photos by a magnum photographer) but I couldn’t tell why. anyway i just thought when I saw that photo that even though I pass by that freeway exit like every day, I would never be able to take a photograph like that.