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Rectangles: too many to count
I can’t argue with my pal Ehpem, who recently pointed out that I tend to shoot a lot of rectangles; it’s possible I overdid it a little bit here.
It’s a rectangle overload.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.7.2013
Another Sunday morning
The 2000 census reported a population of 88; the 2010 census plead ignorance on the matter. The day I stopped, there was a steady thrum of highway noise, but I was the only one who pulled off Interstate 20 to look around. After all, it’s only thirty more miles to Abilene.
Other than this building – which is quite lovely, if you ask me – the only other notable thing about the place is that Larry L. King, author of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, is a native son.
Putnam, Texas
photographed 3.20.2011
Thanks for asking
Something old, something new (if you go right to left).
And – this is the best part, really – the other side of the old building had this:
Along Guadalupe Street
Austin, Texas
photographed 3.10.2013
C. City Rectangles
Someone who follows my blog recently commented on another photograph, “Many of your shots are of highly symmetrical subjects, but framed asymmetrically.” And look: I did it again!
The former Baker Hotel
Colorado City, Texas
photographed 3.13.2013
Refrigerator Door
I had about an hour to spare. An hour in a town like Colorado City might have felt like an eternity to some people. To me, though, it was barely a start: I am already planning a return visit.
For one thing, I found this fantastic place – an abandoned building just a few blocks from the courthouse. All the windows were gone; so was most of the furniture. But the refrigerator was still there. Most of it, anyway.
West 3rd Street, between Walnut and Elm
Colorado City, Texas
photographed 3.13.2013
One Day | One Image 