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abbey strand (with rain)
I didn’t actually even own an umbrella until I was 19 years old and was moving from Lubbock to a wetter locale for college. And then I went someplace even wetter for grad school, where I know for sure I kept umbrellas in my car all the time. But then I came back to Lubbock and probably don’t quite recall how to open an umbrella. And when I went to Scotland last year, I didn’t even take an umbrella with me. I’m not a total idiot – I had a waterproof coat with a hood and anyway how can you hold an umbrella AND use a camera?
near Palace of Holyroodhouse
Edinburgh, Scotland
photographed 11.2.2023
church/yard
Adobe + crosses + clouds + a churchyard: a perfect photography day.
San José de Gracia church
Las Tampas, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024
window saint
This adobe house sits just across the narrow dirt street from the town’s famous church. It seems like it’s close enough to perhaps get by without a window-saint, but the residents evidently felt otherwise.
Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2024
half-way
About half way up the drive to Los Alamos there’s a scenic pullout, and “normal” travelers might pull over long enough to take some selfies and/or glance across the landscape before they get back in their cars and resume the trip.
Photographers (who are almost never in the “normal” camp) will pull over, turn off the car, get out cameras and lenses and tripods and ND filters, and spent a long-ass time making photos.
In case you were wondering why it takes photographers practically forever to get anywhere.
between Pojoaque and Los Alamos, New Mexico
photographed 6.30.2024
death, dancing (with sunglasses)
The route from Lubbock to Santa Fe goes through what’s left of the town of Taiban. It’s regionally famous because of the old wooden church that’s just a couple of blocks off the highway; it’s practically the law that photographers have to stop and take a million photos..
But there’s also this, a not-at-all-creepy skeleton leaning on a porch. He (?) is just off the highway and so has a great view of traffic heading west. But it’s pretty sunny out there so he (?) is careful to protect those eye sockets with a pair of mirrored sunglasses. Safety first.
Taiban, New Mexico
photographed 6.28.2024
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