catch the sun

catch the sun, originally uploaded by Lester Ralph Blair.

There are several photographic icons in the one photo here. A place to catch the sun, a picket fence, and a New Zealand icon, a Ponga Tree Fern. Passing this scene, I walked a little further up. I saw the resident sitting in his yard. He didn't seem to mind me taking photos going past on the steps.
I probably see an image in my mind while walking because I have seen these images before in photographs of the past. One picture leads to another picture down the decades. The author, Geoff Dyer, wrote about this in his very interesting book on photography history, "The Ongoing Moment". It doesn't worry me at all that it is an ongoing theme, it is always a different look.