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in the crashing chaos
“Good God, woman, GET INSIDE.” -what my friend Don told me he thought to himself when I sent him this photo.
This end-of-the-world-looking cloud was right above my house and the rotation (a sign that maybe there’s a tornado) was clearly apparent. I’ve lived in tornado-prone areas for almost my whole life and this…this was scary.
There wasn’t a tornado, though, and my neighborhood didn’t even get too much rain. And also, I did go inside after I made this photo.
The title is from – you may know what I am going to say here – a Bruce Cockburn song, “Boundless.”
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.17.2021
Building Permit and the Madonna
That’s a building permit taped into the window next to the madonna. The permit’s from a least a decade ago – it’s almost too faded to read but I was able to make out a few things: new roof, new ceiling, new floor, new plumbing were all listed. I am reasonably sure that none of those things have been done. I am less sure that there even still is a roof, actually.
Idalou, Texas
photographed 5.16.2021
Hope, lost
I always think I’m through photographing these roadside memorials. But then I see one like this and I know I’m not really done.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.16.2021
Rollers
Sometimes a photo is just a bunch of pleasing shapes that happened to coexist at the time a photographer happened by. That’s what happened here.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.8.2021
Cart Barricade
A couple of times a month, I drive by this tableaux, and for probably a year I’ve thought, “I should photograph that.” So, spurred on by on online photography class assignment to “take yourself on a photo field trip” I finally made it over there to get this shot.
My photography practice regularly involves taking myself on field trips so I’m not sure what it was about having that as an actual assignment that made me do it. But anyway, here’s the scene of some TJ Maxx shopping carts barricaded against a door. (But now that I think about it – surely this door’s not a fire exit??)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.8.2021
One Day | One Image 