Monthly Archives: January 2014
White on white, 15
The backs of things.
Sometimes they are better than the side, or the front, as these views of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church show.
(It wasn’t just this church: here’s the back of St. Mary of the Assumption Church, in Megargel, Texas.)
Petrolia, California
photographed 7.30.2012
The excellent arrow
“The excellent arrow” is what I named this the day I found it.
It was a wayfinding arrow, showing where the parking lot was, for a now-defunct restaurant in downtown Lubbock. I like the curves, the blue-and-white, the way the artist signed it, the dappled sunlight on the concrete block wall.
For that matter, I even liked the restaurant.
(Regarding my use of the urban-planning term “wayfinding” – you may not know this about me, but I actually am a licensed urban planner! That doesn’t mean much, really, except that I once passed a test and continue to pay dues to the American Planning Association. But every now and then, just to keep in practice, I throw in a planning term. Here’s another one, just for fun: road diet. It really IS an exciting profession.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.13.2011
Clouds and the saddlery
I don’t list this on my resume, but I am actually a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society. I have a certificate and I keep a copy of the cloud collector’s handbook in my car.
That way, for example, when I am in Alpine and see these clouds, I can quickly identify them as altocumulus clouds.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 8.16.2013
church
Another view of this church, taken on the same day, over a year and a half ago.
I just went by this place at Christmas, and it looked about the same. Maybe a few more shingles have blown away, and perhaps the building’s succumbed to gravity just a tiny bit more. But, mostly – the same.
Only this happened, and it’s not the first time: scenes that I’ve photographed always seem much smaller when I see them again. What’s with that? Also this: I shoot in color and convert to monochrome. But once I’ve converted a photo, I have very little (or no) memory of what the colors used to be.
(My mind: it’s scary in here.)
Young County, Texas
photographed 5.27.2012
The beast on the wall
Maybe this is one of those times when there’s nothing I can say that will add anything to the photo….
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.29.2012
One Day | One Image 