Category Archives: Photography
hands off, 1
“We took an oath long ago to protect against all enemies foreign and domestic, and I don’t think(we) either ever imagined that we would have to kick in on the domestic piece of our oath, but we have, we are, and we will.”
Colleen Boland and Sonia Lundy, veterans
as reported by http://www.npr.org, 4.5.2025
Hands OFF protest
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.5.2025
watermelon ring
A lesson that I am trying to teach myself is that sometimes it is OK for a photograph to not be completely documentary, that there are times to move past the this-is-exactly-what-I saw point of view and slide over to this-is-sort-of-what-I-saw-and-this-is-how-it-felt-to-have-seen-it. Here’s one of those slide-y times…
Balmorhea State Park, Texas
photographed 3.22.2025
looking for turtles
Little kids around any body of water – a puddle or the ocean or somewhere in between – are so entertaining to watch. They squeal, they run around and jump off things, they approach almost all of it with wild abandon.
These three kids were having a great time hanging over the edge of the spring-fed pool looking for turtles. Judging from their voices (volume + emotion) they saw a LOT of turtles. (If you were wondering, they were likely to have spotted Texas spiny softshell turtles.)
Balmorhea State Park, Texas
photographed 3.22.2025




