Monthly Archives: May 2025
live free (but purchase food)
I really can’t quite make the connection between fast-food at Sonic and living free. But the sky was pretty.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025
tricks to trucks
It was right about in here the other night, as we drove around so I could photograph stuff from the car window, that a woman in a white truck seemed to find our actions suspicious enough to warrant her keeping an eye on what we were doing. She followed us all the way through the neighborhood and for a few miles after we left. I guess she wanted to make sure we were REALLY leaving. Or (and this is less likely) she was wanting to copy my Artistic Technique.
Either way: we made it home.
But aside from all that, the sign that says “tricks to trucks” makes me laugh. I want it to be the title of some sort of redemption tale of a sex worker who found her true calling as a truck mechanic.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025
the hangers on
I’d seen this building before, from the adjacent interstate, but had never gone past the “I should probably go over and look at that” part of my thought process.
Finally, the other night, I did get over there. And I have plans to return: it really was more interesting than I thought it was going to be.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025
1-3-2-4 (at dusk)
I am rehabbing from foot surgery and am still non-weightbearing for another couple of weeks.
That has put a bit of a crimp into my usual photography processes, which mostly involve driving around until I see something interesting, then getting out to walk around while I explore.
The alternate version of that (having someone drive me, shooting from the car window) is actually giving me a chance to look at things from a bit more distance than I usually would, giving me practice framing shots differently, and a lot of chances to say ridiculous things like, “Can you back up like about an inch?”
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025
floral/abstract
I got lost inside of this, in the colors and the shapes and the shadows. It made me feel breathless and disoriented. It was my first experience of the sort (with my own art), and therefore I believe this to be the first meaningful abstract I have ever created.
It feels like an accomplishment. And maybe it was.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.19.2025
One Day | One Image 