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one-half mile
The cemetery was about knee-high in weeds and it’s both snake territory and snake season, so I didn’t walk around. But from what I could see, the number of headstones on the sign is roughly equivalent to the number of graves in the cemetery.
Fun fact: the town and the town’s cemetery are spelled differently.
Roosevelt County, New Mexico
photographed 8.17.2025
ag/industry
It’s not “just” a farm: check out those power lines.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.15.2025
dead flowers
I have no concept of how far away something is…it might be three feet, or 7 yards, or a quarter of a mile: I just can’t really estimate it.
That’s why this particular shot is at once a challenge and a triumph. I was shooting a vintage lens that didn’t communicate with my camera to any particular degree and that meant I had to flat out guess how far away the camera was from the subject and dial it accordingly on the lens. And look what I did: I got the focus on the actual things I wanted to, you know, be IN focus.
For just a very brief time, I felt like a genius. (I’ve gotten over that feeling by now, of course. But I did feel like I ought to mention it.)
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.15.2025
shade/fabric
If you do it right, you can get that shade fabric to distort the lights.
On the other hand, if you do it wrong, the same thing will happen.
I think I did it wrong, but I got the same results, so maybe I actually did it right. Who knows?
Anyway, here’s a picture.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
index notch
If you ever wondered if those indentions in old-school dictionaries have a particular name, the answer is that yes, they do. They are called an index notch.
If you ever wondered if a close-up photo of an index notch* looked like a piece of wood that had been carved out, that answer is also yes.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2028
*See how smart you are? You JUST learned a new word and there you are, already using it in a sentence. Yay, you!
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