the day considered making an appearance
The trains. The trains woke me up. And as the eastern sky began to lighten, I walked down the street, drawn like a moth to the lights of the laundromat.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 7.25.2016
Posted on March 18, 2017, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, alpine texas, black and white photography, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, monochrome, night photography, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, texas, thoughtful seeing. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
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Beautifully exposed, composed, and processed, and what I love is that early-morning-is-just-for-me feeling. Do you know what I mean?
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I know what you mean!
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Thank you, Linda.
Just this week, since the start of daylight savings time, I was thinking about my childhood (pre-daylight savings) when I’d get up about 5:00 and go in the backyard by myself. I loved the dew on the grass, the silence, the approaching daylight. And, I guess, the solitude. So, yes, I DO know what you mean.
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I love this. And your few lines. Reminds be of The Mysteries of Harris Burdick — so much story possibility.
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Thanks, Tanya. I wasn’t familiar (until THIS VERY MOMENT) with The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, but I think the granddaughters would enjoy it.
We’ve got this print – https://americanart.si.edu/education/corazon/artistas_01.cfm – on the wall in our bedroom and my little granddaughter loves to look at it and talk about it, so I think she’d really dig the book.
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Nice attention to detail in your composition.
And it was Now Open, so that would be lucky, if you had laundry to do.
It’s a sensible repurposing of a gas station – looks like a coffee shop attached to the laundromat.
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Thanks, Ehpem. As it turns out, I was heading home later that day, so I didn’t need to use the laundry.
And, there is a coffee shop next to the laundromat (and a food truck beyond that). The coffee shop is called Plaine, an anagram of the town’s name. Nearby, in Marfa, there’s a coffee shop called Frama.
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Clever of you to understand that they are anagrams and not just regular bad spelling, or idiosyncratic something. Do you suppose they are owned by the same person? You could open one in Lubbock. Bobluck Coffee, or Lob Buck (s at me) Rip Off Coffee Chain.
Or at Yellow Canyon called something like Loony New Clay Coffee and Pottery
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“Lubbock” doesn’t lend itself to anagrams, as you just demonstrated. I blame the Bs and the K.
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I don’t even have the words to explain the impact of this image. If money was no issue it would proudly be on my wall. Thank you MGH.
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Richard! What a very, very kind comment. Thank you so much.
(When you have a minute, can you email me at melindagharvey@gmail.com?)
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Bloody nice laundromat. Such is the power of your photos, I really expected this to be a more romantic location, Melinda.
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Thanks, Kate. I like laundromats nearly as much as I like parking garages. Both of those are, well, equally romantic I think!
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This is so good! 😀
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Thank you, Julie!
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