Please pay
Meanwhile, back in Santa Rosa, the paint’s so faded on the sign that it’s hard to tell where, exactly, you’d go to pay for your gas. But it doesn’t matter: neither the gas station nor anything in the direction of that arrow are still in business.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013
Posted on November 20, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, monochrome, new mexico, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, one day one image, photo a day, photography, santa rosa, santa rosa new mexico. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
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Yoo hoo! You’re posted on ‘strata of the self’ Melinda:
http://strataoftheself.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/melinda-green-harvey-self/
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Thanks for posting my shot, Ashley!
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There is something so emblematic about these old fuel pumps you keep on finding. The way that the Texas economy thrives on oil and gas, and yet the small rural areas that are taking the brunt of development in terms of environmental impacts and so on, are also being hammered economically. The pumps kind of tell that story, all run down and rusty and out of commission.
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I was thinking about approaching a local gallery owner about doing a show of my work, and had been wondering what sort of work I’d put in it (if he agreed to the show!) – so now I’m thinking the gas pumps might be a good show. Many of the rural areas are currently in the middle of an oil and gas boom; every time there are booms it’s easy to forget that there’s a bust coming, sooner or later. These abandoned pumps could illustrate the reasons for not being seduced by the booms.
Thanks for the suggestion, and if the show happens, I’ll be sure to mention your role in the idea.
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That sounds like a good idea. You have a lot of good photos of old fuel pumps and gas stations too.
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I’ve added it to my Giant List o’ Projects (pink index cards, taped on the closet door in my office), which makes it official.
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Is the closet door still visible? (in other words, just how Giant is this List?
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Part of it is visible….as I finish a project the notecard will come down, opening up space for something new. (This is, so far, only a theory.)
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I have lists like that, but I hide them in my computer, neglect them, and then laugh when I find them 4 years later, with nothing yet done. Is your list, by any chance, on the inside of the closet door, when it can be closed out of sight and mind?
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Nope – it’s on the outside of the door, so those cards (there are 11 of them, now) can taunt me while I work on things that aren’t on cards.
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