Monthly Archives: May 2018

The Expansive Gesture

Wait. What’s happening here? There seem to be…people…in the shot?

I am going to blame it on a condition I call Conference-induced Ennui, which was creeping up on me after a day and a half attending a professional conference in New Orleans. It was starting to look like a serious case, so on the lunch break, I decided it was time for some drastic action. In this case the drastic action involved, well, spying on those two women.

Maybe the woman on the right was trying to stretch her way through her own case of Conference-induced Ennui. But whatever she was doing, it was interesting enough for me to go way out on my photographic limb and make a photo of her.

And then, it was back to sessions. Stuff like “Essential Techniques for Successful Public Engagement” and “Ethics Cases of the Year” and “Denver’s Blueprint for an Inclusive City.” See what I mean about the ennui? You’re feeling a little lethargic just from reading that sentence, aren’t you?

New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.22.2018

View of a spring shower

I never really even needed an umbrella until I moved to New Orleans. This fairly typical scene, though, illustrates the need for one…

New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.22.2018

A shrine, of sorts

It was just an alley, after all. There wasn’t any real reason for it to feel different from any other alley I’ve ever walked down. But the progression of art and the rhythmic fences marking property boundaries gave it a bit of a formal feel. And the longer I stayed there, the more it began to feel special, like Important Things had just happened, and would happen again.

Or maybe paint fumes were getting to me…

along Fabrication Avenue
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.14.2018

POSTED

Well, of course there was graffiti right next to the “no graffiti” sign. We would have been disappointed if there hadn’t been some.

along Fabrication Avenue
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.14.2018

Beauty

If it’s this pretty, is it still graffiti?

along Fabrication Avenue
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.14.2018