Scene on the Road

The Labor Day weekend is the traditional end of the summer, so I'm finishing up my summer of road trips by sharing some of YOUR photos. I'll post more through the weekend, so check back here this weekend between grilling burgers, getting ready for school, putting away your white clothes, watching the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon and celebrating the achievements of American workers. Enjoy.

Speaking of traditions, Inquirer photographer Charles Fox and his family rented an RV this summer and headed out on the classic cross country vacation road trip. Even traffic jams - this one in Yellowstone National Park - look different under western skies. Before he left, Fox completed a series of photo essays celebrating the historical moment 60 years ago when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. Look for the "Multimedia" heading after clicking on the link.









Closer to home, John Elliott took this one of his son Seth while he played in the surf at Wildwood.

"Having ice cream on the boardwalk, does it get better than that!!!!"
That's how Jim Troiano captioned his photo.

Raymond Varisco and his wife Susan spent their summer "Day Tripping" to festivals around the area.

They witnessed "The Great Sack Race," at the Old-time 4th of July celebration at Fonthill Museum, in Doylestown, which also included a watermelon-eating contest. Varisco tells me, "Besides the sheer fun of driving for its own sake, road trips are a means of exploring what surrounds us. And since 'every picture tells a story,' photographs are a way of recording and retelling the story of where we've been and what we've seen."

He continued saying he and Susan "share a love of reading and of music and of listening to and telling all kinds of stories; and I think our enjoyment of road trips is a natural outgrowth of that love." The Polka band was at the Kutztown Folk Festival.

Steve Smith stayed close to home in Burlington, N.J. photographing on the Delaware River as members of the East End Yacht Club, raced on Thursday nights. He shot from the Promenade at the end of High Street. He says "I am just a guy with a camera who is addicted to water and boat pictures."

Lisa Polidora "loves watching the wildlife interacting and trying to get some good shots." She goes "a few times a week" to Lake Lilly, which is across the road from the Cape May Lighthouse, where this photo was taken.

Diana Keat, a member of the Delaware County Camera Club carried her camera around Pennsylvania Dutch County. She found "this mare was initially very leery of my existence, but ultimately warmed up to me and even nuzzled my hand looking for a treat."

If you've read this far, I'll give you a last minute chance to have your photo included in my next posting. Send me your jpeg as an e-mail attachment to Roadtrip@phillynews.com. Include info about the photo, including when and where you shot it, along with any of your thoughts about photography along the road.






Finally, for now, two contradictory signs caught the of eye Freeman Miller while "on the road" on his usual walk across the Temple University campus near his home in North Philadelphia.

Remember to check back later for more photos...cheers, TomG