Friday Eye Candy: Where U.S. Roads Correct the Grid

Anyone who has traveled long country roads is familiar with the moment when a road makes a sharp turn to deviate from a direct path. Such "grid corrections" provide the subject for a photography project by Gerco de Ruijter.

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April 22, 2016, 5:00 AM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell

Just east of Arbuckle, California. | Google Maps

Geoff Manaugh shares "the work of Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter, who has been documenting the landscape phenomenon known as 'grid corrections,' or where the U.S. road system is forced to deviate in order to account for the curvature of the Earth."

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