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Patient Spouse, as we’re leaving town: What’s the best way to get back to the highway?
Me: Go straight through this light.
Also me: Wait! Wait! Turn left RIGHT HERE. I need to look at something!
Patient Spouse:
And that’s the story of how we drove all the way to the next town before we got on the main road. And it’s also the story of how I got this photo, and the one from yesterday, and the one you’ll see tomorrow…
Tulia, Texas
photographed 6.24.2019
The grain company
Well, this was my kind of place: out of business, dirty windows, and a place where I could stand to get this shot. This way of shooting through windows has evolved into one of my favorite techniques. Often (this place was an example) I can’t even see what’s inside when I make the image. All those Sam Abell-influenced lessons about careful composition go right out the window* and I get what I get. Sometimes I get crap** and sometimes I get something like this…
Tulia, Texas
photographed 6.24.2019
*So to speak.
**Literally, but what I really meant was from a photo-worthy-of-posting standpoint.
Here we go (bonus post)
Fourteen months of shooting and 4000 images later – here we go: the first print for my solo show “Years of Dreaming.” The project documents the final year of the Lubbock Memorial Auditorium and Coliseum, which have been demolished to make way for…something.
The show will open August 2 at the 5 + J Gallery here in Lubbock.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.22.2018
Details, urban ruins
There’d been a fire here. That’s all I can say with certainty.
Vaughn, New Mexico
photographed 2.25.2019
Of course there was a vacancy
Yes, there was a vacancy at this place. Mostly because it was out of business.
Vaughn, New Mexico
photographed 2.25.2019
One Day | One Image 