Country Roads — Donna Hopkins

I spend some time watching Kyle McDougall’s video, 3 Key Lessons I Learned Making My First Photobook. I love Kyle’s book, An American Mile, and add it to my wish list. Studying his pictures sends me back to my own. His views of the American West are fascinating to me because they feel simultaneously familiar and foreign. The East Coast has old abandoned buildings and wide open views, but the skies and the surroundings are different. Everything here in Virginia is so green. This is another of those pictures that I deemed unworthy—mostly because after awhile, falling down houses begin to feel like a cliché. But on second thought, views like this are part of my everyday life. Absolutely worthy of attention. A page in the photobook, A Virginia Summer.