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my first street photography
I was recently reminded (when I was looking a box of random stuff) that my street-photography efforts started much earlier than what I remembered. If you’d asked me prior to this discovery, I would have said 2022 or so marked the beginning.
But here’s proof that I actually did a bit of street photography in the summer of 1967, while on a family trip to Mexico.
Also, check out the guitars for sale in the background…
family photo, scanned
Toluca, Mexico
photographed summer 1967
toilet training department
Apparently I happened to walk by the cleaning supplies (which included kids’ potty chairs) portion of the street-side market.
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 9.1.2022
hotel, via roma
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.31.2022
“…the quintessential cowboy”
I looked up Clifford Jackson Taylor after I made the photo but before I wrote this post, and here’s what I learned.
He went by Jackson and was a cowboy, working on ranches across the United States and in Australia. He was a member of the Western Ranch Cowboys Association and was professional bronc rider; he appeared in two seasons of the reality show “Ultimate Cowboy Showdown.” In 2023, he was competing in the WRCA-sanctioned Estancia Valley Ranch Rodeo in Moriarty, New Mexico, fell during a bronc ride and later died, according to a report from the Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon. He was 33 years old.
His grave is here, in a tiny country cemetery that’s down a dirt road.
Grey Mule Cemetery
Hall County, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024
there wasn’t even time to pack the applesauce
I’ve been a fair number of abandoned places and they generally have the same elements: busted furniture, caved in ceilings, dirt, junk. But this was the first place I’d ever seen fourteen jars of baby food that did not make the leave-or-take cut when the family cleared out. There were other signs of children having lived there (toys, a framed portrait of a little girl) but it was this applesauce that grabbed at my emotions.
Quitaque, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024
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