Big Fork Find

Location scouting has to be one of the best parts of commercial shooting. Days spend touring an unknown countryside in a fast car with good music, and a long list of potential properties stretched out before you. It’s the perfect combination of making a day rate and pure discovery.

It always feels a little rush as you speed between potential locations, but when searching turns to discovery you have to stop, put the process at hand aside and spend the time exploring what you find.

Such was the find I stumbled across at the Big Fork property here in the Tennessee countryside. Following some cryptic directions from the Ken Kesey doppelgänger owner, I headed out into 2500 acres of farmland dotted with rundown outbuildings and vintage cars put out to pasture like a horse long past its prime. It had this feeling of a moment suspended in time. The engine long gone cold as the tires decay against the weight of pure steel. The natural world claiming what it could in a slow battle years in the process.

It’s not always easy to break from any intended activity, but when opportunity calls. Stop the car, no matter how good the music is, hop out and enjoy the peaceful solitude created by the ever so slow march of time.