Eventual destruction
There’s the kind of destruction that sweeps down from a cloud – a tornado or wind or hail or lightning. It’s here, then it’s gone.
And then there’s the kind that happens incrementally, so slowly that you don’t even notice it until it’s probably too late to do anything about it.
Mineral Wells, Texas
photographed 8.15.2010
Posted on June 19, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, destruction, melinda green harvey, mineral wells, mineral wells texas, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
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This makes me dizzy – especially since I think the clouds are moving! I like it.
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Sorry. I hope I didn’t make you fall out of your chair!
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The rough texture of the building contrasts nicely with the smoothness of the sky and clouds.
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I assume that there is a name for that style of brick, with the texture sort of scratched into it. The name I’ve given it, in my mind, is “that brick with the scratchy texture.” (I’m pretty clever when it comes to naming things.) Anyway, it’s my second favorite kind of brick.
That reminds me that my parents’ house was made from reused brick, which was a thing for a while in the 1960s. I had a particular BRICK that was my favorite – it had some kind of black glaze on it, and it was right next to the garage. I’d look at every time I went by.
(Maybe having “favorite bricks” is a sign of some sort of other issues. I think I’d better change the subject. So, how’s the weather up your way? Been hot here – hot as a brick oven. DAMMIT.)
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… but it is not that the two meet so well in Texas more than in other places. As a real change give us a few images of the rich homes in Houston especially around Kirby Drive, or something similar and more contemporary than I remember – Texas is by no means only no man’s land… Who would have ever thought that I should defend the image of Texas ! It must be my age.
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Vera – oddly enough, even though I have a degree in architecture, I almost never think new and/or fancy buildings are photogenic. I do have a post coming up in a few days with a photograph of a recent Frank Gehry building in Chicago, but I only posted it because I really can’t stand his work!
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The campus of Rochester Institute of Technology is sometimes called “Brick City” for the extensive use of the red brick on all the buildings and walkways. Someone tried to count all the bricks one time. They had to be institutionalized.
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I am not a mathematician but I am pretty sure the correct answer is “all of them.”
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“you don’t even notice it until it’s probably too late to do anything about it” – like when a roof tile falls on the head of the photographer? You must feel a bit queasy standing so close to so much decay and ruin, so often.
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Fortunately, I have a very hard head. It’s possible that you already knew that about me….
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