Jonathan Schimpf submitt us recently his work. We enjoyed this image a lot. «The series of images that I am submitting is from a road trip across the United States this summer (July-August 2010). I made these photographs to remind myself that our country has a wealth of simplicity & odd beauty. That serenity can be found in all places, even when you least expect it. Being in an urban location (Philadelphia), one sometimes can’t help but think of America as a busy place, pre-occupied with working, saturated with advertisement, fast meals, and consumerism. Most family vacation destinations revolve around resorts, amusement parks, cities, etc. Myself and three allies found that what we enjoyed the most was here before us. I found it most interesting to examine the differences between what humans have inserted into the landscape, and the installations that nature has created on it’s own. The intersection of these ideas would best describe this group of photographs.»