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One Broken Window

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At first I thought this little drive-in was still in business, but that broken window indicated the opposite. (Another hint, to be honest, was the complete lack of kitchen equipment inside. I’m a pretty good detective.)

Wilson, Texas
photographed 10.31.2015

Sun Angle

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This one is all about the light’s angle, and the way it made that diagonal shadow at the same time it was highlighting the door hardware.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.25.2015

Beyond the gate: the entire world

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These missions were walled communities. To keep people in, or out? Or both?

But at any rate, the entire world lies beyond the gates.

Mission San José
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015

Wooden Stairs

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Back in August, I read this this post, by David Scott Moyer, about his visit to Spanish mission churches in northern Mexico. There were a lot of wonderful images, but the one that somehow caught my attention was one of wooden stairs in a bell tower. I thought about those stairs and that image for several days after I first saw it; the idea that each step was made from a single piece of wood intrigued me.

And, then, not much later, I was at a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, and spotted a set of similar stairs. I don’t think I’d have even noticed them at all if I hadn’t seen David’s post – the power of blogging, I guess.

(I still like David’s photo better. In case you were wondering. My shot was a bit constrained by a gate blocking access.)

Mission San José
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015

The divine (and everything else)

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The juxtaposition caught my attention. The old chapel on the one side and all the stuff of regular life on the other – the signs, the garage, the dirt parking lot, the electric meter.

Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)