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Remembering John
“Come in! Come on in! Don’t be bashful!” -what the very exuberant gentleman at St. Joseph’s Chapel said to me as I was trying to stealthily photograph the chapel’s foyer. So I did come on in. I sort of had to at that point, right?
North End
Boston
photographed 9.5.2021
Jerusalem
According to the sign, Sunday School was supposed to be in session. The Patient Spouse and I (plus a dog that seemed to live in an adjacent cemetery) were the only ones in attendance and none of us were prepared to give a lesson.
So I made some photos, the dog returned to the shady spot he’d emerged from, and the PS and I drove onward.
Freestone County, Texas
photographed 8.15.2021
Crossed
Late afternoon utility line shadow crosses the church’s facade.
Brooklyn, Nova Scotia
photographed 8.2.2015
Baptistry, after the fall
This was a first: in all my times I’ve looked inside an abandoned church, this was the first time I spotted a collapsed baptistry. That’s why I will continue to look inside as many abandoned buildings as I can: because you just never know when you’ll see something new.
Also, this is the place where a pair of dogs came up behind me, suddenly, causing me to have my regular reaction when unknown dogs get close to me: I always assume they are there because they want to eat my leg(s). So far, I’ve been wrong every time and I hope to never be right.
Bellview, New Mexico
photographed 6.5.2021
Gothic
Way back in 2009 when I started my photography-blogging habit, I really had no concept about what I was in for. I didn’t know that photography would become so meaningful to me, that I am sort of good at it, that I’d be in shows, or that I would go away to take classes. But mostly, I just didn’t see that there was potential to reach out to other people – via the blog or Facebook or Instagram – and make some fine new friends in the process.
One of those fine friends is Santa Fe photographer R. David Marks; we’ve gotten to know each other lately and met up for a day earlier this summer in Tucumcari. We had an excellent time photographing the things that caught our eye. This is one of the first photos I made that day; every time I look at it I’m reminded of how much fun we had.
Tucumcari, New Mexico
photographed 6.4.2021
One Day | One Image 