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That one Saturday morning
Nazareth, Texas, is about 90 miles from Lubbock. There are a couple of ways to get there, but one of them involves driving on the interstate, so I almost never choose that route. Instead I go through Shallowater and Littlefield and Spade and Olton and Hart, traveling mostly on a narrow farm road. It’s a nice drive, and I especially like it on winter mornings when the low sunlight catches the spiky stalks left behind in the fields after the harvest.
This one Saturday, I was heading to Nazareth and keeping my eye on the interesting clouds. I could tell that I was going to pass under them at some point along the way, and so it was with a bit of luck that I was in Hart when I caught up with the clouds: it made for a more interesting photograph to have buildings in the shot.
Nazareth. Why Nazareth? Good things happen in Nazareth. You should go, if you get a chance.
Hart, Texas
photographed 11.19.2011
White on White, 9
The bars on the window are designed to permit the casement windows to open part-way. But judging from the amount of thick paint on those window frames, I’d say that flat bars would have worked, too.
But these make a better shadow.
Hart, Texas
photographed 9.27.2008
Whew! I did it. I am, of course, posting this in advance, so it’s pure conjecture on my part when I say the vacation was great and I look forward to a return visit to where ever it was that I went. But, I also look forward to replying to your comments, which I will start doing tomorrow!
Sign/Post
Look! Another example of (strongly) converging verticals.
I am almost positive that the sign’s gone now; next time I am up that way, I’ll check on it. A lot of the buildings and signs that I’ve photographed over the past few years are gone; so many, in fact, that I am giving some thought to featuring them in a gallery here on the blog. (Posting this plan makes me accountable – you are encouraged to remind me if it looks like I am not making the gallery. And when/if reminders don’t work, you are authorized to switch to nagging.)
Hart, Texas
photographed 9.27.2008
After this, only one more day…then I can see what I’ve been missing. And I can reply to your comments.
August 19
Shocking, isn’t it? That I posted a color photograph, I mean.
This image and I had a bit of a battle. See, I wanted it to be black and white, because that’s what I am doing now. I mean, I even posted a picture of the Pacific Ocean in b&w: I am committed to it.
But, no: this image had its own ideas. It was somewhat insistent, in fact, of the correctness of color over b&w. I didn’t want to believe it. But eventually it wore me down. And so, here’s a color photograph. I hope you’re not too upset by it.
(Also: the photograph was right. It DID need to be in color. But I will deny that I admitted it.)
Hart, Texas
photographed 2.16.2011
August 1
Hey – wait a minute. Doesn’t she look like this angel statue in Santa Rosa, New Mexico?
in the cemetery
Hart, Texas
photographed 8.14.2011
One Day | One Image 