Monthly Archives: June 2024

storeroom

 

Scotland is many things, including an abundance of textures – walls, windows, mailboxes, traffic cones, signs – all in one handy location.

Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.10.2023

sound of mull, morning

 

The morning that the rest of the group hiked to a lighthouse I decided to NOT hike to a lighthouse. Part of it was that I wasn’t keen on hiking on a bunch of black ice, but mostly I felt the call to get some photographs that weren’t going to be similar to what everyone else was going to get.

It sounds pretty anti-social when I write it down, but anyway, here’s the non-lighthouse view that I saw that day…

Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.10.2023

raindrops on the lens

Sometimes when you and your microfiber towel are just overwhelmed by the situation and weather and the wind-driven rain, you decided to just go with it, to just let there be some raindrops on the lens.  And you decide to call it “adding authenticity” to the image and post it.

near Glencoe, Scotland
photographed 11.5.2023

native colors

 

This sun-dappled courtyard could not be more in the spirit of far West Texas – the colors, the textures, the plants, the shade, the sunlight, the sounds all combine to make it the sort of place I could happily spend the afternoon. Or, perhaps, several afternoons and some nights and a morning or two as well.

Planet Marfa
Marfa, Texas

photographed 5.13.2024

desert forest

 

I’ve been to Valentine several times. I generally avoid going out to see Prada Marfa while I’m there because all possible photos of the place have already been taken.

This gives me time to look around the actual town and that’s how I found a cemetery over there on the south side. Evidently it doesn’t have a name, either on the entrance gate or on Google maps, but it was worth the stop. Plus I didn’t have to wait around for my turn to take pictures (like you do at the famous place) because everyone there but me was dead.

Valentine, Texas
photographed 5.13.2024