Monthly Archives: October 2013
Feet, in motion
Plan ahead: next June you should think about going to Denver for the Greek Festival.
There’s food. Lots and lots of good food. And dancing. And clothing. And music. And tours of the Assumption of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Denver.
And, bring your camera.
(Sometime after we watched these dancers, we sat under a blue tent and had some souvlakia and baklava. We shared a table with a group of ladies, all old and all clad in black and all of whom had plenty to say (in Greek) to a younger woman. She didn’t look too happy about what they were saying; it might have been because she was wearing dark blue.)
Denver, Colorado
photographed 6.21.2008
Chair Jail
I am not sure what these chairs did, but it must have been pretty bad for them to be incarcerated. Look at them, pressed against the bars of the chair jail, in their prison uniforms, dreaming of life on the outside.
Or, maybe they are plotting an escape.
I didn’t stick around to see…..
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.29.2013
That one Saturday morning
Nazareth, Texas, is about 90 miles from Lubbock. There are a couple of ways to get there, but one of them involves driving on the interstate, so I almost never choose that route. Instead I go through Shallowater and Littlefield and Spade and Olton and Hart, traveling mostly on a narrow farm road. It’s a nice drive, and I especially like it on winter mornings when the low sunlight catches the spiky stalks left behind in the fields after the harvest.
This one Saturday, I was heading to Nazareth and keeping my eye on the interesting clouds. I could tell that I was going to pass under them at some point along the way, and so it was with a bit of luck that I was in Hart when I caught up with the clouds: it made for a more interesting photograph to have buildings in the shot.
Nazareth. Why Nazareth? Good things happen in Nazareth. You should go, if you get a chance.
Hart, Texas
photographed 11.19.2011
I’m guessing the reclamation isn’t complete
The other side of this building, which has that nice banner announcing Reclaim Colorado City. Good that the city’s started the effort, but there’s still a ways to go.
But, to be slightly selfish for a minute, I don’t mind the disrepair one bit: it makes for much more interesting photographs.
Colorado City, Texas
photographed 3.13.2013
West Texas, a sense of place
I am happy to announce that my photograph “Why Travel the Stars” has been accepted into “West Texas, a sense of place,” a show sponsored by the Texas Photographic Society and Odessa College. The show will have 36 images, from 24 photographers.
The show will open on November 4 at the Options Gallery at Odessa College, which is (this part is complicated) in Odessa, Texas. Stop by, if you’re in the area.
“Why Travel the Stars”
Marathon, Texas
photographed 11.12.2011
One Day | One Image 