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hard times had landed
Here’s the latest entry in my long-running practice of shooting photos through dirty windows, just to see what’s inside.
The last time I posted one of these sorts of photos I commented that there is nearly always a water bottle somewhere in the scene. And just because I can’t see one here probably only means that it was there, but wasn’t visible…
Bledsoe, Texas
photographed 8.17.2025
one-half mile
The cemetery was about knee-high in weeds and it’s both snake territory and snake season, so I didn’t walk around. But from what I could see, the number of headstones on the sign is roughly equivalent to the number of graves in the cemetery.
Fun fact: the town and the town’s cemetery are spelled differently.
Roosevelt County, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025
ag/industry
It’s not “just” a farm: check out those power lines.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.15.2025
dead flowers
I have no concept of how far away something is…it might be three feet, or 7 yards, or a quarter of a mile: I just can’t really estimate it.
That’s why this particular shot is at once a challenge and a triumph. I was shooting a vintage lens that didn’t communicate with my camera to any particular degree and that meant I had to flat out guess how far away the camera was from the subject and dial it accordingly on the lens. And look what I did: I got the focus on the actual things I wanted to, you know, be IN focus.
For just a very brief time, I felt like a genius. (I’ve gotten over that feeling by now, of course. But I did feel like I ought to mention it.)
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.15.2025
shade/fabric
If you do it right, you can get that shade fabric to distort the lights.
On the other hand, if you do it wrong, the same thing will happen.
I think I did it wrong, but I got the same results, so maybe I actually did it right. Who knows?
Anyway, here’s a picture.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
One Day | One Image 