Blog Archives
night/terror
No surprise to anyone that’s seen more than, say, four of my photos: I can’t go very long without posting some kind of a reflection. And for some reason, hotel rooms have the best reflections.
So, while the conference I attended may not have been particularly helpful for my real job*, the hotel room views did provide some nice opportunities to make images.
Frisco, Texas
photographed 4.27.2026
*My real job – grants writer. And I SURE ENOUGH went to a session on using AI to write grants. It felt a little bit (or a lot) like spying on my competition.
(not the) moon
Here’s a view from that giant hotel room I mentioned yesterday. I like it that this looks like it might be the moon, but isn’t.
San Angelo, Texas
photographed 4.10.2026
low light
Hotel rooms always seem full of photos waiting to happen.
Last week I spent the night in San Angelo. One night. One person. And all I needed was one room with one bed. For some reason, they gave me a suite which had more square feet than the first apartment I rented. It had a living room! A giant bedroom! Two TV sets! A full size closet! A bar sink! Windows on two sides of the room! A desk! Two ( !! ) dressers. It was a lot, especially because I was exhausted and honestly the walk all the way to the bed in the other room seemed like it was almost more than I could do.
But on the way to the bedroom, I did see this cool lamp.
San Angelo, Texas
photographed 4.10.2026
room 100
It was 104° at 6:00 pm and I had just the tiniest bit of heat exhaustion. Setting the a/c as low as it would go was very helpful. I know you were wondering.
(Note: I’d had plenty of water that day. And it had electrolytes in it. But still that damn heat just got to me.)
Post, Texas
photographed 8.6.2024
coverlet
I don’t know if familiarity breeds contempt as much as it breeds photo-blindness.
I would never (never, I say!) even think about photographing the bed at my house. But a hotel room’s bed? I photograph a lot of hotel room beds. They just seem to be a lot more interesting, but that also makes me realize that I am overlooking photographic subjects in my own house.
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.23.2022
One Day | One Image 