Monthly Archives: July 2021
Membership Rates (may be negotiable)
I’m just guessing, using many context clues, that those posted membership rates could be negotiable.
(I used to have a job that was awful for many, many reasons. One of the reasons was the sexist boss, who would take the male employees out golfing on a routine basis. The women? Nope. We never got invited. My work friend and I decided to address the issue by taking golf lessons, talking about it all the time at work, and acting as though we actually liked golf. We thought that might shift the balance a little bit. It did, too, only not quite the way we’d anticipated: she got transferred out of state and I got fired. But anyway, along about that same time, my son and I played at this little course several times. My son is hilarious and so our golf games were…uh…unorthodox. And we had a hell of a good time, more fun that was ever possible if I’d to play with that sexist boss and his enablers. So things worked out.) (Also, right after I got fired from that job – which I didn’t even like – I landed my current job, which is the best job I’ve ever had. So, again, things worked out.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.20.2021
Ohio?
For a minute I thought I’d time-traveled to Ohio. But then I remembered that I hadn’t. And that I shouldn’t believe everything I read.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 6.20.21
Shrine Shadows
There are many things I don’t understand, and I think that photographing them may help me think about them in a different way, or at least think about them at all.
Out there on the far side of Brownfield there is a roadside shrine: a tall cross, a grotto, floodlights – the whole thing. I’ve photographed it twice. I still don’t really get it, but this time I did learn that diffused and shadowy light outside can still make interesting shadows in the grotto.
So, there’s that.
Terry County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
Stop. Stop.
I don’t know. As far as I am aware, the Texas Department of Transportation doesn’t have any guidelines that mandate two stop signs at intersections that are extra dangerous. And I’ve traveled miles (many, many miles) and have never encountered a double-stop sign. So who knows?
But at least I did the right thing, from a photographic standpoint. I documented what I found.
Terry County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
“mistakes were made”
Yes, definitely some mistakes were made here. Lots of them. All of them were my doing.
The truth is that I don’t know where this was taken. Or what it is of. The photos on either side of it don’t offer any useful clues, either. But still, in spite of knowing nothing useful about the subject, I rather like the effect. Focus? Decisive moments? Composing and waiting? Has all that stuff been optional all this time??
Yoakum County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
One Day | One Image 