I have been fighting a cold so I feel more like I'm trying to survive a day than embracing it and trying to make the most of it. People who live around my neck of the woods know that today was a really crappy day to be out on the roads. I'm not sure my Toyota got over 40 mph today. So feeling poorly and having to be out in it on such a crappy day I didn't expect to get any photos. After making some rather standard pictures of a sign in Conneaut Lake I got back in my car and sat for a few moments. I noticed right away the windshield was great and I feared that when I started my car up that the wipers would automatically be on, but they weren't. So I sat and started making pictures focused on the windshield. At first I was shooting wide, but didn't like the washed out sky I was getting and decided to go longer lens. That's when this bus drove up passed me and stopped at the light and I tried to zoom in on just the yellow. I couldn't quite do this but shot what I could. When I got back I just cropped a little off the side and top to clean up the composition. I made two frames and had trouble deciding which I liked better--the wet windshield was moving and the distortions were different in each frame. I began shooting more lights of cars coming at me as well--none of which seemed to work 100% but a little cropping again on the one below produced an nice abstract. So I was surprised today and yes making a picture like this does make me feel a little better. Nyquil in a few minutes will do the rest! Photographs by Richard Sayer.