Trekking 20 miles a day requires taking about 40,000 footsteps. Each footfall traverses a new world—a planet unveiled roughly 30 inches at a time. In this way, walking becomes an act of micro-discovery.
Starting today, we begin regularly sharing these moments of visual exploration along the 21,000-mile-long “Out of Eden Walk” trail. Found objects. Spontaneous encounters. Moments of lightness and weight. Everything is game. We are calling this feature “Blink”: An instant captured and stored away without breaking stride.
In this case, it was trout set out for inspection—for sale. But the glass tank sat atop a roadside table as if the fish were themselves the observers of humankind. Studying the crude sound waves pulsing from our busy mouths. The pounding of our machines. The trout listened by jerking this way and that. They turned the delicate line of nerve endings pinstriped down their sides to the clamor, listening.
Blink is a regular photo feature capturing a random moment along the 21,000-mile trail of the “Out of Eden Walk.”
