Monthly Archives: August 2025
he was out at first
That runner gave it all he had, but he was watching the ball could already tell that he’d be out at first.
His team (the Amarillo Sod Poodles) won, anyway.
Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025
the rbi
Look at me, pretending to be a sports photographer! (The runner was called safe. It was not a popular decision.)
Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025
game/face
Because I am still encumbered by that delightful orthopedic boot, I am looking for ways I can still make photos without a lot of walking around. Also, it’s freaking hot and who needs to be walking around in that??
Turns out that a minor league baseball game holds a pretty good set of subjects, including this player getting ready for his turn at bat. I’ve never quite seen this much concentration on one face.
Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025
can’t sink me in sorrow
I’ve lived almost my whole life on the plains, within view of long horizons. Without them, I feel constrained.
Which I guess is why I took advantage of a piece of a horizon and stretched it out into a four-shot panorama. I felt better, too, when I was done and the photo was a little more horizon-y than the camera realized.
Gilbert’s Cove, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015
view from Montague Row
It’s hard for me to believe it’s been ten years since I went to Nova Scotia. At that time, I was working on a specific project that involved my great aunt’s poetry about Acadians in Louisiana and pairing her words with my images from the Acadian part of Nova Scotia. It felt profound then, and still does, a little bit, now.
At the same time I was gone, my dad was in hospice care back in Texas. That also felt profound then, and still does.
He died 34 days after I got back. And I’m glad I made the trip when I did: it helped me gather strength for day 35 and 36 and so on.
Digby, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015
One Day | One Image 