26 | One Bridge, Two Paths

1996 | Devil’s Gate, Shasta River, California

Congruent solutions…I have been wrestling with these two for years, and I still prefer the second one.

Radiologists, astronomers, and detectives use alternating flash-viewing methods to facilitate their diagnoses, discoveries, and forensics. The stacked presentation here is a good way for me to squeeze out a solution. I’ve placed my favorite in second position under this one, so that I have to do some work and dig down a layer to find it.

I think it might be one of those pictures which Garry Winogrand spoke of: “When you try to throw it away, it sticks to your hand.”


* Run your mouse over the picture to compare my two views.
** Touch-screen users can just touch the picture to swap, then touch the white border to revert.