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We buy
What remains behind when a business closes down interests me. Almost never do I encounter an empty, but clean, building. Variations on this scene are common.
So, this place. I guess they bought grain and feed. Purina was involved. What happened next? I don’t know. But whatever it was, it’s been a while since it happened.
Sudan, Texas
photographed 5.25.2013
Rhythm.
Yes, I did take an overnight trip to Clovis, New Mexico, just to take pictures of…well…whatever I could find. That’s the way I am.
I don’t know what anyone else – particularly my patient spouse, who served as Driver and Assistant on the trip – thinks about it, but when I saw this grain elevator, I knew the trip was worth it.
Clovis, New Mexico
photographed 5.25.2013
A few more rectangles
Here’s one for my friend Ehpem, who noticed my tendency to shoot rectangles even before I’d figured it out. I guess you can tell which one of us was paying attention. (Hint: it wasn’t me.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.2.2013
Alley, at dusk
I don’t know what street I was on (Benton Place? Lake Street?). It was in Chicago – I remember that much. I might have been heading east. Unless I was going west, or, you know, one of those other directions that streets go.
But it doesn’t matter. What does matter (at least to me) is how attractive this alley was, with construction scaffolding blocking the light from above and a streetlight highlighting the concrete barrier in the foreground. And, way down on the other street, a lone pedestrian in a bigger hurry than me.
the Loop
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 4.13.2013
Red Line bridge is patriotic
You know how this works: you pack up the camera after having taken approximately one billion photographs* at the extremely photogenic and historic cemetery. And you start walking back to catch the train. Then you see “USA” painted on the bridge. You have a brief debate with yourself. Unpack camera and get the shot? Keep walking? (Repeat, rapidly, three times.)
Then you take the shot. You knew how the debate would end. But, still, you had to have it.
along West Irving Park Road
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 4.16.2013
*Editor’s Note: OF COURSE it wasn’t one billion photographs. It was 139. Some people may have a tendency to exaggerate.
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