This must be a place
This building is somewhat reticent on the matter of it’s being THE place, but just in case it is, here’s a musical interlude to start off the year – The Lumineers singing the Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place”.
(For you purists out there, here’re the Talking Heads, same song.)
Aransas Pass, Texas
photographed 10.9.2011
Posted on January 1, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, aransas pass, aransas pass texas, architecture, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, talking heads, texas, the lumineers, this must be the place (naive melody). Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
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This is a great shot! I like the curve at the top and bottom of the frame and also the diagonal railing with the mailbox that leads the eye to the door and PLACE that balances it out. Tag this one for competition.
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Thanks, Ken. This is another one of those shots that hung around the archive, waiting for me to finally notice it.
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It does seem to be a place! Quirky wonderful.
Happy New Year, Melinda. : )
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Yes, I think it is definitely a place all right!
Happy New Year to you, too. I look forward to seeing more of your lovely, ephemeral photos this year!
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In my town there is a place called Our Place, its a place for the down-and-out but more of a place-holder-in-life than a home.
This at least appears to be a place called home, a place that the mail man is willing to deliver news and even gifts from the larger world, a place with curves and not just hard sharp straight lines.
Besides which, it is a very nice photo!
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I think this building might have housed some kind of a bar or restaurant at some point, though the location of the mailbox doesn’t make any sense for something like that. On the other hand, there’s something about it that makes me think of a building here in Lubbock that has AA meetings pretty much all the time.
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I love the textures and tones in this, Melinda.
Wonderful mood too.
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Thanks, Lisa. There’s a lot going on with that wall; the paint and stucco don’t hide a single thing!
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..oh, hmmm – when I lived in Texas I used to know a family by the last name of ‘Place’ – who can ever tell…
BTW: The photo is splendid in its reverberations.
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Thanks, Vera. Maybe this is the Place’s place?
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You know, one interesting thing is that you do NOT go knocking on doors to verify stuff… it is like fiction, best left as we find it, somewhat unexplained.
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That’s an interesting observation, and a correct one. The obvious explanation is that my residual shyness kicks in when confronted with a closed doorway.
But, mostly, it is as you say – I like to leave things unexplained, to let the viewer fill in whatever story they’d like.
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I’ve always loved this style of building, a Tex-Mex flavour. I did notice the door’s locks have been changed about a gazillion times, makes me wonder what’s inside now lol.
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There’s not much telling what’s going on with this place. There were several things about it – including the evidence of all those locks – that made me think it changes its mind frequently about what it is!
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