It was all yellow
We spent the day driving around with some friends – those rare kinds of friends who really don’t mind if you want to stop approximately every seven minutes to take a picture of something you saw beside the road. I’ve written about this before, about feeling rushed when you’re with people who are used to your peculiar ways, and how it can have a negative impact on your work. But these friends got it and didn’t mind stopping – in fact, they encouraged it. And, even better: they suggested some places to go that they thought I’d like.
This was one of their suggestions, and it was a treasure of visuals. Like this room, that used to be even more yellow than the way I saw it.
Check back for more shots from the Day of Driving and Photographing.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
Posted on June 7, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, abandoned farmhouse, architecture, lubbock county, lubbock county texas, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 21 Comments.

Love the colors in this – quite ‘painterly’ or whatever that awful word is for such a good quality. But of course, I’m most impressed with your friends. Really nice folks!
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Thanks, Donna. You’d like these friends; in fact, you should come to Lubbock so you could meet them!
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Reblogged this on The Legion of Door Whores.
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Hang on to those friends!
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Oh – I will!
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Lovely, lovely: colors (I see that touch of blue, always so nice next to yellow), composition, and—of course—objects themselves.
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Thanks, Linda. One of the friends we were with lived in this house as a very young child. This isn’t how he remembers it looking….
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you find the best crappy places!!
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If I ever publish a book, can I have permission to use this quote on the cover?!
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lol sure!!
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Thanks! That should make all the difference between acceptance/rejection…
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LOL, yes, crappy run down places often times are the best places to take pix.
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That’s certainly my feeling! (Which I am pretty sure you already knew about me…)
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something told me that was the case!!
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Love it!
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Thanks – for taking the time to comment, and for following the blog!
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You’re welcome!
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All the lines lead to that door, but this room should come with a safety warning – when is the next bit of ceiling going to fall in?!
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I didn’t even think about getting smashed by a falling ceiling! I used to have a hard hat in my car at all times; maybe I need to start carrying it again…
(My family will argue that my hard head is likely to be protection enough, but we can just ignore them…)
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I really love this image, Melinda.
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Thank you, Lisa.
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