Monthly Archives: December 2013
Sometimes the reason is different than you think
I thought I was taking this photo because of all those lovely rectangles in the windows.
I don’t mind being wrong: when I looked at the photo, I thought I’d taken it because of what looks like an art gallery in the room beyond the windows.
I still don’t mind being wrong: after I looked at it some more, I realized that I’d taken it because of the different glass in the windows and the way the light’s reflected differently across the bank of windows. Some of it’s wavy, some of it distorts the reflection, some of it looks like there’s not even glass there at all.
some random alley
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
An early alley
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost four years since I took this photo.
I’d gone to Abilene, Texas, for the weekend to meet up with a friend. After she headed back home I stuck around town for a while and took some photographs. This was before I’d figured out the wealth of interesting things a photographer can see in downtown alleys, so I only took a few shots. Now, of course, I’d take a few dozen shots. Per block.
But maybe this is where I started figuring out about alleys….
Abilene, Texas
photographed 4.3.2010
Complete motor service
Although I really do want to believe the sign that promises complete motor service, I sort of doubt it.
But I didn’t need my car repaired when I was in town. And I was looking around for things to photograph, so it all worked out. My favorite thing here is that grain on the piece of plywood that’s covering (I am guessing) a window.
Amherst, Texas
photographed 5.24.2013
Security fence
A picket fence provides some measure of security, I suppose, at this rural airport.
But mostly, it provides a subject for a photographer waiting for her flight home….
Taveuni, Fiji
photographed 7.5.2013
The road to nowhere
The streets are wide enough so trucks have an easy time backing up, and pulling away from, loading docks.
It makes me think of the Talking Heads:
Maybe you wonder where you are
I don’t care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there…take you thereWe’re on a road to nowhere
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.28.2013
One Day | One Image 