“The Birds,” 2007, Monumental
“The Birds” was taken quite by accident at the train station in Whitehouse, NJ. I commute to and from school via the NJ Transit train system daily. On one particular day, I missed my stop and ended up two stations down the line. The sky was a perfect blue, so I decided to photograph my surroundings. The railroad crossing seemed to loom above everything, so I tried to bring out that looming, overpowering, slightly creepy feeling in the image.
While the colors are bright and vibrant, there’s still something eerie about this image. The way the birds are flying in the background makes me think of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”.