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Moon, setting
Here’s another photo from our friends Darryl Birkenfeld and Joann Starr’s place, Casa La Entereza, with the summer solstice moon high in the morning sky.
If you’d like to know more about the house – which was designed by the Patient Spouse – go here.
near Nazareth, Texas
photographed 6.24.2019
Near the tracks
Just a little something I saw down by the railroad tracks…
Tulia, Texas
photographed 6.24.2019
Attebury
Patient Spouse, as we’re leaving town: What’s the best way to get back to the highway?
Me: Go straight through this light.
Also me: Wait! Wait! Turn left RIGHT HERE. I need to look at something!
Patient Spouse:
And that’s the story of how we drove all the way to the next town before we got on the main road. And it’s also the story of how I got this photo, and the one from yesterday, and the one you’ll see tomorrow…
Tulia, Texas
photographed 6.24.2019
The grain company
Well, this was my kind of place: out of business, dirty windows, and a place where I could stand to get this shot. This way of shooting through windows has evolved into one of my favorite techniques. Often (this place was an example) I can’t even see what’s inside when I make the image. All those Sam Abell-influenced lessons about careful composition go right out the window* and I get what I get. Sometimes I get crap** and sometimes I get something like this…
Tulia, Texas
photographed 6.24.2019
*So to speak.
**Literally, but what I really meant was from a photo-worthy-of-posting standpoint.
Catenary
“Catenary*” is a word I learned in architecture school and haven’t used since. Obviously that degree was well worth the my time and my parents’ money!
But it was still in my head, all these years later**, and when I looked at the arc of those curtains and the arcs of the power line shadows, it popped up.
Berryville, Arkansas
photographed 10.6.2018
*Catenary = a curve formed by a wire, rope, or chain hanging freely from two points and forming a U shape.
**Here are some things from architecture school that didn’t stick around in my head: anything involving calculus or structural design, most of architectural history, the difference between a muntin and a mullion, and whatever the hell hegemony is.
One Day | One Image 