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
motors
I’ve been watching the place for a long time, waiting for the abandonment to hit the critical, photo-worthy point. And it’s nearly there…
The day I visited I noticed how those letters were cut from sheets of plywood. And then I realized that the wood grain is going in different directions on the letters and now I can’t un-see that part of it. (That’s a weird relic in my brain left over from when I was learning – unsuccessfully – to sew. Nice that I still remember to lay a pattern the same direction on the grain of the fabric and how hilarious that one thing still hangs around to influence random photographs.)
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
shade/fabric
If you do it right, you can get that shade fabric to distort the lights.
On the other hand, if you do it wrong, the same thing will happen.
I think I did it wrong, but I got the same results, so maybe I actually did it right. Who knows?
Anyway, here’s a picture.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
One Day | One Image 