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This is what happens when my camera and I are left unattended at the garden center: I take lots of random pictures. I figured if any employee challenged me, I’d just say I was taking pictures to give to my landscape designer. That sounds kind of plausible, I think. No one bothered me, though; I think they were busy waiting on actual customers or something.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.20.2019
Shadow Line
WARNING: COLOR IMAGE TO FOLLOW!
Sorry. I hope the warning worked and you weren’t too shocked.
Here’s the thing: I took my camera with me to the garden center because I haven’t been taking many photos lately and I sort of couldn’t come up with a better place to shoot. We were going there anyway, see, and it would give me something to do while the Patient Spouse got the [insert garden-y thing here] that he was looking for.
I think you see my point: this would have been pointless in black and white.
Thank you for your indulgence while I strayed away. I’ll be back tomorrow, all black and white, like usual.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.20.2019
Burnt
Start here, with this long article about the fire. I’ll wait.
This part is relevant to the photo:
Her truck stopped on the Rue du Cloître Notre-Dame, a narrow street that runs on one side of the cathedral. The building was so gigantic, she couldn’t see where the fire was spreading anymore.
“We were so small that it was hard to get a proper idea from the bottom of the cathedral,” she said. “But it might have been better like that.”
We were standing on Rue du Cloître Notre-Dame when I made this image. It’s hard to look at the photo now, especially after reading the article.
around back
Notre Dame de Paris
Paris
photographed 6.10.2017
Terrasse
It’s 284 steps all the way to the top, or about 240 to get to this point. By the time you’ve made it this far, the hard part is over…
almost at the top…
Arc de Triomphe
Paris
photographed 6.10.2017
The tower, from a bus
I am no expert on French law, but just in case this taking this totally clichéd shot of the Eiffel Tower was some kind of legal requirement, I went ahead and made it. Because ending up in jail would be a crappy way to spend a vacation.
Oh, and also because it really did look pretty cool.
Paris
photographed 6.18.2017
One Day | One Image 