We spent an hour or so walking around old Reston the other afternoon. I was idly thinking about how mid-century modern refers to the middle of the previous century, making it a somewhat confusing term anymore, since we are rapidly closing in on the middle of the 21st century. At any rate, the light was relatively flat under cloudy skies, but I knew that kind of illumination would be good for photographing some of the sculptures scattered about the grounds. This piece was tall and skinny, with vaguely human proportions, and had a bit of a curved surface, which made things challenging. I wanted a tight crop to exclude the sky. It occurred to me that this sculpture has been keeping watch over the grounds for longer than many of the current residents have been alive.
