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October 18

The Lubbock Series: 2 of 6

Along the path of a new freeway, a building begins to self-destruct. Later, the task was finished by heavy equipment, and now nothing is left but a vacant lot.

I shot this before I began my current photography-blogging career – which for those of you keeping score at home was on January 1, 2009 – but my eye was drawn, even then, to these poor old buildings. But don’t let me get away with being TOO self-congratulatory: I also shot this at the same place; I call it Gin and Cigs:

Marsha Sharp Freeway and Ave. Q
Lubbock, Texas

photographed 3.30.2008

October 14

Wingate, Texas, had a population of 216 in the 1990 census, 132 in the 2000 census, and didn’t even show up in the 2010 count.

Wingate, Texas

photographed 5.3.2009

October 12

From the same place I found these buildings.

Lubbock, Texas

photographed 9.29.2012

October 9

I found a treasure: these old industrial buildings are fantastic.

(A warning to my regular readers: you’re gonna see these again and again. Don’t say you weren’t warned.)

Lubbock, Texas

photographed 9.29.2012

October 8

Someone’s plans didn’t quite work out. Unless their plan was to leave a building to disintegrate beside a remote highway.

Abandoned industrial building
Reeves County, Texas

photographed 11.11.2011