Another Sunday morning
The 2000 census reported a population of 88; the 2010 census plead ignorance on the matter. The day I stopped, there was a steady thrum of highway noise, but I was the only one who pulled off Interstate 20 to look around. After all, it’s only thirty more miles to Abilene.
Other than this building – which is quite lovely, if you ask me – the only other notable thing about the place is that Larry L. King, author of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, is a native son.
Putnam, Texas
photographed 3.20.2011
Posted on April 3, 2013, in architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, architecture, black and white photography, downtown, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, putnam, putnam texas, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
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The black and white is particularly striking on this, probably due to the dark sky and the light building, which I like as well.
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Thanks! I actually can’t remember what color the building is, though some sort of pinkish paint comes to mind.
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Are you shooting color and converting to B&W or are you shooting just the black and white? Just curious.
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I shoot everything in color – I like to leave my options open, although I know you’ve sensed my tendency to use B&W almost always.
I use Photoshop for the conversions; I am learning Lightroom, though, and considering getting Nik Silver Efex.
And I am entirely self-taught, making me both the smartest kid in class and the dumbest. I don’t know that I am doing things the BEST way – I only know I am doing them the way it works for me.
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Did they close the liquor store in Putnam?
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That’s a good question – I didn’t SEE a liquor store, and it’s not like me to miss something that important. Perhaps a return visit is in order…..
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great contrasts!!
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Thanks, Derrick. This is a patient shot – it sat in the archives for two years before I noticed that it had potential!
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I like this one too – nice that the building is darker at the top, just like the sky.
It sure looks like there used to be something written on the angled surface, but I can’t quite make it out.
You must have been pleased to find something from a couple of years ago that works so well.
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Does it look like there’s a face on that angled side?
If I were shooting this now, I’d walk all around it and take about 83 shots; my methods have evolved a lot in the past year or so. More information; less mystery. But: is that a good thing?!
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83? Precisely? Sometimes I wonder if you make things up.
I too would circumnavigate this building, firing away. It is so nice the way it is standing free of other structures. I wonder if it had abutting wooden buildings at one time. Was it a corner store do you think?
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Yes, 83.
(Why would you POSSIBLY think that I might make things up?)
I think it was a corner store, and the owner lived above.
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