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Downtown’s Reflections
There’s something about shooting into very reflective windows that I find appealing. You may have already noticed that.
In this case, I feel like just about everything that was going on in downtown Pampa on the night of the 26th ended up in a single image.
Pampa, Texas
photographed 12.26.2019
Dam!
This is how bad it is: the lake looked pretty full to us, compared to how we remembered it. But looking across the water at the dam, it was clear that it was still very low, a detail confirmed by my favorite lake-monitoring website: this poor little lake is at only 11.5% of capacity.
Lake Mckenzie, Texas
photographed 12.26.2019
PS. I know it’s weird to have any kind of a lake-monitoring website, let alone a favorite one.
Lakeshore (water down)
In event the water ever rises in this lake, the little spit of land I was standing on will be under water. But the lake’s been down for as long as I can remember, so I didn’t even pack a wetsuit.
Lake Mckenzie, Texas
photographed 12.26.2019
as the sun sets on another dying town
Someone’s big dreams landed here, in the early 1900s. The town was platted, named then renamed, and there was a post office, a general store and hotel, a blacksmith shop, and a church or two, and even according to one account, a doctor – all there in hopes of benefiting from the future railroad. And then (you know how this goes), the railroad failed to materialize. The town hung on for a while but started to fade away.
The official population of the place is listed at 10.
Vigo Park, Texas
photographed 12.26.2019
Heart-wire fence
The forecast was for snow, and I was looking forward to seeing this part of the state under a thin white layer. The idea of it fit the vision in my head images I wanted to bring back from a quick trip to the northern part of the Texas Panhandle.
There wasn’t any snow, not even the tiniest flake. But the next best thing – fog! – hung around all day long, giving me lots of chances to make gloomy images in the fragile light, like this vaguely heart-shaped wire holding together a fence.
Gray County, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019
One Day | One Image 