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Two lights
This is one of those design ideas that might have looked really good on paper, but which didn’t really work out that well when the building was finished.
The lower level of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center (where no one goes, mostly) has some broad pedestrian walkways that lead…well, they sort of don’t lead anywhere. But they don’t mind if you take their portrait.
And those two little lights work hard to light the way, in case someone happens to walk by.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.16.2014
A worn windowsill
This building in downtown Lubbock has surely seen better days. It’s been a few things in the past – a hospital, a college – but most what it is now is vacant. I’ve shot it before (here and here) but this was the first time I followed my own advice and walked around back.
It was worth the trip, I think: most of the first-floor windows were broken, giving me views of cabinets with open doors, a random grocery cart, and a fabulous worn windowsill.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.16.2014
Upon reflection
When Ehpem and I were wandering around making photos, we turned down a brick alley. (We’d just been told it was haunted, so of course we had to go!).
There weren’t any ghosts, as far as we could tell, but there was a dramatic set of reflections in the windows above us.
Victoria, British Columbia
photographed 8.3.2014
PS: Want to know something sort of funny? Just yesterday, Ehpem posted a shot made within steps of this one, and wrote about looking up. Great minds think alike. And so do ours.
