Category Archives: architecture
Some mixed signals
This was different: it is a lot more common to see satellite dishes standing alongside abandoned farmhouses than it is to see a solar collector. It gave me sort of an odd feeling: what, I wondered, were they collecting solar power for? And what a contrast between the rundown house and that shiny new collector. So, even though the home ownership dream appears to have not worked out, kudos on the attempt at using sustainable energy.
Also, check out that wagon-wheel deal in the fence. It’s sort of fantastic, isn’t it?
near Knobbs Springs, Texas
photographed 2.28.2014
Geometrics
In addition to the very nice industrial buildings I found in Caldwell, I saw this fantastic wall, full of rectangles and arches and polygons and angles. And brick and concrete and wood and asphalt and even a tiny bit of paint still clinging to the brick.
Caldwell, Texas
photographed 2.28.2014
What I’d rather see
Caldwell, Texas, is a lovely town, with several blocks of large, nicely kept, older homes. It’s got a nice courthouse. It’s even the Kolache Capital of Texas!
And all that’s nice, it really is. But you know how I am: skip the fancy stuff, and give me some nice, old metal on a few industrial buildings and I am one happy photographer.
Caldwell, Texas
photographed 2.28.2014
Corner Window
Say it’s a sunny, cool spring day, and you don’t have a precise schedule. And say the state highway department is very good about signage, so that narrow roads that lead to tiny and remote country cemeteries are clearly marked. And say that your driver is good with the plan to turn down as many of these narrow roads as you want to take, just so both of you can see what’s there.
That is how I ended up at the Knobbs Springs Cemetery, just a few miles down County Road 305. But the real find down that road was an old wooden church next to the new, brick Knobbs Springs Baptist Church. The narrow white boards could have used a new coat of paint, and the windows might have benefitted from being washed. But, then again, this photo wouldn’t have had nearly the same look, would it?
Knobbs Springs Baptist Church
Knobbs Springs, Texas
photographed 2.28.2014
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The reasons why:
1. The water damage on the wooden joists
2. The tiny bit of a tree poking up over the roof
3. The rectangles. All those rectangles!
4. The address over the door.
5. The reflections in the window that do not include me.
6. The tenacious weeds growing up in the expansion joints of the concrete.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 5.4.2013
One Day | One Image 