Why I love my job
My co-worker, whom I will call Brad (but only because that’s his name), stopped by my office the other day and told me, “I found a place you’ll love. Tokio. Between Brownfield and Plains.”
My co-workers are good about giving me tips on where to shoot; another one, that I’ll call Alfonso (because he gets called that a lot, even though his name is Adolfo), travels around almost every weekend and texts me photos of things he sees that he thinks I’ll like.
It’s sort of fancy, I think, to have a whole team of location scouts. And it’s one of the reasons I love my job.
Anyway, the other day when I was coming back from my photo adventure in Roswell, I remembered what Brad told me, and pulled off the road to check out Tokio. He was right: I did love it. I loved it even thought the wind was blowing and there was a cloud of dust headed my way. (You can see it in this picture, that gritty looking stuff behind the house.)
Tokio, Texas
photographed 5.11.2014
Posted on May 21, 2014, in architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, ghost towns, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas, tokio texas. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Comments.
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Great stuff!
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Thanks, Derrick. Good thing – with all that dirt in the air – that I just bought a bunch of swabs to clean the sensor!
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indeed!! The last several times I’ve come home my stuff has been just filthy
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The guy at the camera store said, “With this drought, we can’t keep these swabs in stock!” I try to talk myself into believing those dust spots are artistic, but so far I haven’t been successful….
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LOL exactly. At least they’re easy to remove. 🙂
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That’s true – the hardest part (for me, at least) was getting over the fear of swabbing the inside of my camera!
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Very nice! I like the toning, somehow it adds to the grittiness.
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Thanks, Karen. I ought to have made it a sepia tone – that way it would have been an even better match for the color of the sky!
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Haunting. It take great courage to live there. Great image. But I think of the people who lived there. It takes courage – or final numbness …. –
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Thanks, Vera. This place is very strange, everything abandoned and in disrepair, and the howling wind and blowing dust when I was there only added to the strangeness. You’re right – it doesn’t take courage to live someplace like this, to try to persevere against the odds. And still lose.
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