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All the new pandemic graves, 1
There were more new graves at this cemetery than I’d ever noticed before, surely a result of the 626 COVID deaths* in Lubbock.
I had a philosophical argument with myself over even making this image (and the two that will follow). It seemed intrusive in a way that my normal cemetery images don’t. But it also seemed historically important, also in a way that my regular cemetery images don’t.
History won.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.29.2020
Nathan Harvey, drone pilot
*As of 1.14.2021.
both graceful and dangerous
My photographic eye was caught by the contrasts in the sweep of razor wire – it’s so graceful as it arches over the barbed wire, yet so deadly. No new ground here – either philosophically or photographically; it was just something I saw.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.5.2020
Inside/Outside
Do you think the cacti are jealous of each other, with the inside one wanting to experience the ice, and the outside one wishing for the relative warmth of the greenhouse?
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
Bough, frozen
Look at me, pretending I understand color photography!
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
The day winter arrived
This is usually how our weather works – it’ll be the end of October and still hot. Like need-an-air-conditioner hot. And then the weather forecast says in four or five days we’ll have six or seven inches of snow. Six or seven INCHES!! It is very exciting. But as the days between now and the forecasted snow dwindle, so does the anticipated snow accumulation. And then, at last, the snow day arrives. Only there’s ice instead of snow.
And then, two or three days later, it’s once again so warm that it’s hard to believe the ice storm really happened.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
One Day | One Image 