Monthly Archives: April 2025

(un)intentional camera movement

This was the day I wore a purple ballcap. It was also the day I was fiddling with my camera because I was getting bored with being a passenger. And ( ! ) it was the VERY SAME DAY that I accidently took this photo, which I don’t even hate.

somewhere around Plainview, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025

silence carries

The back side of a disused grain elevator, with a long lens. The distance and the wind combined to make the sounds of all the pigeons impossible to hear, which is an uncommon auditory experience around these old places.

Plainview, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025

going up against chaos

Just before the railroad overpass, there’s an L-shaped building that’s painted bright green. You can’t miss it.

It used to be a restaurant, and fading lettering on the outside of the building lists some of the options – tortas, tacos, burritos, tripas*, lengua**, and so forth. The short side of the L, toward the back of the lot, has a missing window. If you look in, you can see a mysterious pile of unbroken piñatas. And a framed picture of a giraffe with a price tag that says $39.99. That’s a pretty good price for art and a shrewd bargainer could probably get a piñatas or two thrown in.

Plainview, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025

*tripe
**tongue

minimal, with chain

It was a slow day. Even for the pigeon.

Plainview, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025

on the level

Why not take an ant’s-eye view photo?

Lorenzo’s not the kind of town that requires a long wait for a break in traffic there on the main street (which is actually Harrison Street), but still, that morning that I was there, it did seem like a statistically-unlikely number of people were out (and further, that they slowed down when they went by) on that Friday morning.

Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025