Stilted
I was getting ready to take a photography class that required the use of only one lens, a 50mm. That’s not my preferred lens, so I thought that maybe I needed to practice a little bit with it before heading off for a class.
And that’s how the photo of this…thing, I guess we’ll call it…came about.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.22.2021
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
The thing about living in Lubbock is that if you go somewhere and meet some random people, you can talk to them for just a few minutes and figure out that you’ve got a heretofore unknown connection with them. Just last night, I met a man named Wicker, and it turns out that he owns this thing. And the thing has a name! It’s a part of an abandoned cotton gin called a burr tower. In its previous life, it held the cotton burrs that were removed from the cotton during the ginning process. Also, though, Wicker says he also calls it the “alien spider.”
Posted on September 12, 2021, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, 50mm, black and white photography, learning to see, Leica, lubbock texas, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, reasons to stop, road trip, take time to look, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing, travel photography. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
Very odd looking structure, but I like the name ‘alien spider’! My husband years ago used to drive around all over the county delivering cotton samples to all the gins.
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So he saw a lot of alien spiders, right!?
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haha! Yes, and I just showed him this picture and he knew exactly what it was for. 🙂
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A thing from HG Wells’ “The War of the Worlds”??
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That was my first thought!
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Yay!
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