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italy (only actually havana)

Havana. I saw the Italy-hat guy in Havana. You’ll just have to trust me on this.

Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.7.2022

do not go gently

I was looking back through the images I made a few years ago on a photo trip to Havana and found some that didn’t catch my attention at the time.

Like this one, which I made on the first night in the country, of a vintage car driving in front of the Hotel Inglaterra. As we explored the neighborhood around the Parque Central, rolling blackouts rolled around.  It was a little surreal, the way the buildings would be flooded with light one minute and then gone when the lights went black. It was a regular thing, day and night, and I never got used to it.

Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.5.2022

hands off, 7

“In New York, demonstrators gathered in Bryant Park, holding signs reading ‘Unplug Elon’ and ‘I can read this because there used to be a Department of Education’.”

as reported by aljazeera.com, 4.5.2025

Hands OFF protest
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.5.2025

bird + bus stop

Heat. And then some more heat. That was my main impression of Barstow. It was the kind of heat that dried everything out, that bleached the color until it wasn’t there.

But hey! At least people waiting for the bus got some good shade.

Route 66
Barstow, California
photographed 6.2.2023

needle moon

It was a gray night in Needles; even the full moon didn’t help very much.

Our stop in Needles came after a long day of driving that took us from the close-to-freezing temperature in Flagstaff*, across the desert, through a creepy town that I’ll call “Oatman”**, and then down into Needles, which was hot AF and really pretty depressing.

Oh, the joys of a road trip!

Route 66
Needles, California
photographed 6.1.2023

*Which we didn’t appreciate as much as we should have
**Because that’s the name of the place