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life moves quickly (except for the slow parts)

Although it doesn’t sound correct, this is in fact my wedding dress. A blurry, purple-ish version of it, anyway. I was working on an assignment for an online photography class and while this didn’t even come close to what I was supposed to be working on, I still liked it.

(My mom made my dress, from Vogue pattern number 1363. It has about 54 miles* of lace hand-stitched onto the chiffon skirt. She would be very disappointed to see this photo, which blurred all her hard work.)

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.13.2025

*According to the information on the back of the pattern, the dress required 11 yards ( ! ) of lace, which doesn’t even sound plausible. Maybe I need to take an Actual Photo of the dress instead of this one…

PS: Here’s the pattern. Please note that my dress had neither the cape attachment nor the headscarf atrocity.

floral/abstract

I got lost inside of this, in the colors and the shapes and the shadows. It made me feel breathless and disoriented. It was my first experience of the sort (with my own art), and therefore I believe this to be the first meaningful abstract I have ever created.

It feels like an accomplishment. And maybe it was.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.19.2025

veil

You know what? I don’t think I am going to explain any of this.

You’re on your own.

near Nambé, New Mexico
photographed 7.6.2016

as the waves softened us

That night in the warm darkness, I could hear conversations in Italian on my right and, behind me, conversations in English. I sat alone with my thoughts, listening to the waves roll across the sun-heated sand and marveling at the way my life had turned out that I was there on the shores of the Mediterranean on a full-moon night with a camera in my hand.

Erelcea Minoa, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022

soccer abstract

Oh, just playing around with my camera while the home team lost the game. What did you do the other night?

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.18.2023