A five-member herd
I drive this highway every day on my way to work. It’s not a very exciting trip, most of the time – just 30 miles or so of mostly straight 4-lane highway. Sure, it curves a couple of times, and the speed limit drops through the little town of Smyer.
A few months ago I started to notice the chairs outside the fence of a junkyard that’s along the way. Sometimes there are two or three, other times there are as many as five. Sometimes they face each other, sometimes the highway, and sometimes one or two of them are on their side. I always look when I go by; it gives me something to do.
Toward the end of last week, I noticed the chair census had grown from two all the way to five. So on Saturday morning, I took a drive out that way to make a portrait of the herd of chairs.
Highway 114
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 5.9.2015
Posted on May 14, 2015, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, chairs, hockley county texas, lubbock texas, melinda green harvey, monochrome, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Comments.
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Very nice, this one brought a smile.
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So, today when I went by, three chairs were lined up like they are in this photo, and the other two were a few feet away. I sense some discord…
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Or the chairs have minds of their own.
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That is very possible. You know how chairs are…
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Yes with four legs you’re never sure.
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Well done portrait…of a strange setup.
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Thanks, Robert. It’s fun checking on the chairs every day. Every now and then I think about stopping in at the junk store that’s right there to ask about the chairs, but so far I’ve always decided I’d rather be able to make up the story myself.
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Much like in SciFi…never show the monster the one in your head is always much worse… 🙂
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Excellent observation!
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These kinds of chairs have always been interesting to me – they look like someone has put wheels on a starfish, and stuck a shaft up to hold the chair. Maybe its the starfish on the run. They move slowly, so they have not got very far from the store yet.
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That’s sneaky – no one expects to see starfish around here. (Even with all our recent rain!)
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