Monthly Archives: July 2025
self portrait
Well, look at that! There I am, reflected in the headlight rim of an old motorcycle! (In real life, I am taller.)
This was right about the time a mom – one of those ones who have been fortunate enough to have given birth to the World’s Only – and Most Fascinating and Smartest – Toddler In History – shouted at me from across the gallery because she thought I was photographing her and the WO-AMFAS-TIH*. That was fun! I’ve never been yelled at in a museum. Photography sure does lead to a lot of new experiences.
The Museum of Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.27.2025
*I wasn’t.
something doesn’t seem right
Good gracious! Something seems amiss here.
But the worst thing (possibly) is that no one seemed to notice; they were just going about their day not even caring that there was an armless man piloting the boat through thin air while also blowing a sizeable amount of smoke out of his mouth.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.30.2025
red light district
Of course my eye was drawn to the only bit of color in the scene…even though what I’d gone over there to photograph was the remains of a building on the right side of the image. Now I can understand that the building-husk was just the bait to lure me in.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025
there’s always a water bottle
Fun fact: almost every abandoned building will have at least one water bottle gathering dust along with the other discarded parts of someone’s life.
Muleshoe, Texas
photographed 7.14.2025
through longing and through pain
This is a shock, right? Can you even believe that I’ve made such a swing from abandoned monochrome downtowns, to this?
What happened was I took a class on macros and close-ups, and we had homework. At the same time (but unrelated, probably), I sort of re-injured my surgery foot and had to be non-weight bearing for a few days. That meant that a trip to New Mexico had to be cancelled and my plans to do my homework in adobe churches or whatever fell all the way apart.
My dining room table turned into a studio and I gathered up things I could carry to the “studio” in one hand while I navigated the knee scooter with the other and they became my subjects.
I’m still not happy about the surgery setback (it’s much better now) or the cancelled trip (I’m still sort of stabby about that) but those things conspired to lead to me shoot something I’d never even given the slightest consideration for a photograph.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.12.2025
One Day | One Image 