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Clear Intentions
I definitely got the idea that I needed to go no further onto this property to get the photo. But just in case I didn’t, there was a guy in a truck, off to the right, keeping a close eye on what I was up to. And, I am sure, he was prepared to remind me if I strayed too close.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 4.15.2021
Sofa amongst the tile
You surely already know that I like to look inside abandoned places. I like seeing what sorts of things got left behind. I like seeing what’s falling apart. I like seeing what’s still holding on. In this particular case, the sofa looks really sketchy and almost all the ceiling tiles have succumbed to gravity. And that striped wall is still there…
Wickett, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
Graveyard, sort of
From my angle, these pieces of concrete looked like some kind of weird headstones…
Penwell, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
Book Burning 2: Crisis Forecasting
This photograph is the absolute truth: a book open to a chapter titled Crisis Forecasting was right there at the scene of the fire.
Sometimes I think finding things like this is the very reason I became a photographer.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.38.2021
Book Burning 1: Ansel Adams
There was a fire in downtown Lubbock last month; some apartments, a barbershop, and a used book store were destroyed. Naturally, my camera and I went out to look around; by the day I explored, the salvageable things (metal joists, mostly) had been pulled out to one side and everything else was pushed into a pile. And, shining like a beacon from the pile was Ansel Adams’s autobiography.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.38.2021
One Day | One Image 