the general
This photo was made in 2017, and even then it felt like dollar stores were everywhere.
But that was nothing compared to how it is now.
Many small towns don’t have real grocery stores any more, just dollar stores without produce or fresh meat, but with plenty of shelf-stable stuff that’s over processed and unhealthy. Oh, and runaway yellow carts all over the place.
Rayne, Louisiana
photographed 10.21.2017
reservoirs of death
I was looking back through a batch of old pictures that were taken on two different trips to the Acadian parishes of Louisiana; there were a lot of images that were…not good. I like to think that in the ten years since I made those trips, I’ve learned a thing or two about photography, and maybe I have.
This starts a series of Louisiana images, all of which are edited in not my normal style – some times I feel like branching out.
Anyway, here’s a mausoleum that I found in a place called Mowata.
near Mowata, Louisiana
photographed 1.10.2016
you’ll never sink when you are with me
I went to the Salton Sea four years ago and just lately took another look at the photos I’d made on the trip.
Some of them appealed to me now more than they did then – and this is one of them.
I do not know what the artist (or artists) intended to convey with this installation in the Salton Sea. Pyramids are said to be linked to funeral rites as a passing of existence beyond time…this one in the dying sea seems especially poignant.
Bombay Beach, California
photographed 2.12.2022
sun/burn
You know how your dermatologist is always talking about using sunscreen?
This right here is why. I mean, just look at their skin – some of it looks like it melted, some of has some awful growths*, and none it of looks healthy.
East Jesus, California
photographed 2.11.2022
*Completely unrelated: what does leprosy look like?
well, this is frightening
There is one thing I strongly believe and that is if the word “escape” is written on the way in to a sketchy building, there is very little chance of your making an actual escape.
So be careful….
Calipatria, California
photographed 2.13.2022
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