Monthly Archives: April 2017
Happy * 3
Really, who wouldn’t want to purchase their fireworks from someplace that is this enthusiastic?
Wolfforth, Texas
photographed 4.1.2017
Seasonal Commerce
I like fireworks stands, probably because they’re closed almost all year. There’s something endearing about them, sort of hopeful, and patient while they wait for those few days each year when they can do some business.
Wolfforth, Texas
photographed 4.1.2017
TPS 26: The International Competition
Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.1.2014
Six. In a row. That’s how many juried photography shows I didn’t get accepted to. That’s six emails that I didn’t read past the depressing combination of “thank you for your interest” and “however.”
Today, I got one of the other kinds of emails, the ones I read all the way to the end! My photo “Some Illumination” was accepted into the Texas Photographic Society’s International Competition; Alison Nordstrӧm was the juror. The show will be at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, from May 18 through July 16; the show will have subsequent stops at teh Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene, Texas, and the Options Gallery at Odessa College, in Odessa, Texas. Stop by, if you can!
Not even new releases could save it
It seems so archaic, thinking back on our old Friday night ritual of going to Blockbuster to try to find a movie to rent. One we’d both agree on. One we hadn’t already seen. One that was still on the shelf.
So it came down to this.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.31.2017
Pull
It was a nice afternoon – warm and sunny with no wind to speak of. So naturally my thoughts turned to, well, abandonment.
I headed over to look at a store called Savers, which I’d heard was going out of business. When I got there, I knew right away that I couldn’t get the shots I wanted because it was next door to a Dollar Genera (or a Family Dollar – who can tell them apart?), so there were too many cars and people around.
Lucky for me, though, I was close to a shopping center that had some vacancies.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.31.2017
One Day | One Image 