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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
Shrine Shadows
There are many things I don’t understand, and I think that photographing them may help me think about them in a different way, or at least think about them at all.
Out there on the far side of Brownfield there is a roadside shrine: a tall cross, a grotto, floodlights – the whole thing. I’ve photographed it twice. I still don’t really get it, but this time I did learn that diffused and shadowy light outside can still make interesting shadows in the grotto.
So, there’s that.
Terry County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
For Father
Father wasn’t there. Or if he was, he’d walked over.
Texico, New Mexico
photographed 6.4.2021
Sometimes the way will be blocked
A tiny shrine, with believers held at bay with a rope: a reminder that sometimes our way will be blocked.
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
photographed 4.25.2021
