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culture/clash

I’m just going to leave this here and let you think about it.

San Diego, California
photographed 5.1.2022

cabinetry

This building is boarded up now, but back in the Olden Days of 2014, all I had to do to see this scene was to walk down the alley and look through the broken glass.

The real question here (and it’s one I cannot answer) is why I would have waited 405 weeks between when I made this photo and when I posted it.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.16.2014

prom date

Based on the age and the outfits, my guess is that I was in San Diego on prom night. That young woman in the center appears to be very pleased with her date…

San Diego, California
photographed 4.30.2022

i couldn’t see (an abstraction)

Hello, and welcome to Tricks of the Trade Friday. Here’s another one in my ongoing series of photos shot through dirty windows. I guessed* at the focus, held the camera as high as I could, put it right up to the glass, and made the photo. I am not quite sure what the camera saw, but anyway – here it is.

Ropesville, Texas
photographed 4.24.2022

* It was a guess. I cannot really claim it was even an educated guess. It was a straight-up guess.

stepping up

Well, just look at what I went and did! Yes! I walked around to the back of this building. It was worth the trip, because I found this nice scene, just waiting for me to arrive.

Ropesville, Texas
photographed 4.24.2022