Monthly Archives: December 2015

Red, as an accent color

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Wait, what did I do here? Did I mean to post a color image?

Yes.

But only because I like the way those spots of red flow through the image, from the steps to the bands by the doorway, to the bench, to the boat to the quilt. And even to that dot of red on the sidewalk.

Nicely done, red things. Nicely done.

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015

Cornered

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The broken-cornered piece of plexiglass made a ground-high greenhouse for buffalo grass.

Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 12.5.2015

The more I see the less I understand

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I’ve seen this old gate before. A lot of times. But it wasn’t until I made this image that I noticed that the window seems to be at the bottom of the gate. That doesn’t seem exactly right.

Nor, of course, does a gate-window seem quite right.

Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 12.5.2015

There was no explanation

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I just really don’t have any idea what this was all about. There’s not one thing there that makes the least bit of sense to me.

(UPDATE: the chairs, lamp, and table are gone. Only the curtains remain.)

(UPDATE, updated: My friend Ron is Facebook friends with an woman named Terry Gilmore Fritz, who did the installation as part of a photography class. According to Ron, she set it up so passsersby could “shoot people while in the scene.” So it totally makes sense that I saw it, stopped, and made photos without people. That’s comforting, somehow.)

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.4.2015

Buy 1 Get 1

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For various reasons, I’ve been in a bit of a shooting slump lately.

But I feel like I might be coming back. On Thursday morning, I noticed the way the sunlight played across this roadside fireworks stand. And on Friday, I brought my camera, pulled off the road, and made a few images. It felt right.

(Also, for you fireworks shoppers out there, it’s Buy 1 Get 1 every day.)

Smyer, Texas
photographed 12.4.2015