#1715 - Paul Caponigro

Blue Ridge Road, Virginia, 1965
July 24, 2025
#1715 -  Paul Caponigro
"No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
~
Robert Adams

There’s something transformative about being on the road and watching the landscape shift, feeling it shape itself around the people who call it home. Travel asks us to pause and to notice. Some photographers seem born with that instinct. They didn’t chase spectacle or stage elaborate scenes. With a camera always close and a deep trust in the journey itself, they uncovered something far more enduring: the beauty in the overlooked.

I’m often reminded how a short trip—a detour off the main road or a quiet walk in a new place can unlock a shift in perspective. A fleeting scene, captured forever.