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Maybe an altar

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It’s been a while since any roofing business was conducted here, at the Adolph Roofing Company, on the corner of 8th Street and Texas Avenue. One of the big windows on the front is boarded up. The vinyl blinds on the other one are in a yellowed heap on one side. There’s still a mailbox, though, but it’s thick with accumulated dirt and pigeon droppings.

Inside the building – this scene, which for some reason makes me think of the church in Terlingua.

Maybe it’s the table along the far wall, giving the effect of an altar? Or the bright, beckoning light coming from those windows? Or maybe it’s just me. (You’re right: it’s just me. Forget I brought it up.)

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.2.13

It’s empty, but sort of elegant. In a way.

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An empty building in downtown Lubbock.

photographed 3.2.13

Risk management

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I love the bottom three rungs of this ladder: they have a distinct “rustic” or “artisanal” feel to them, don’t you think?

But I am not a risk manager. Or a safety officer.

I am just alley-roaming photographer.

Lubbock, Texas

photographed 1.6.2013

PS – For those of you keeping score at home, this is post #400 here at One Day | One Image.

Pebble field

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It was a warm day, warmer than usual for January. And the wind wasn’t blowing, which is rare enough to warrant a mention. I wandered the streets (and alleys, which you probably already knew) of downtown.

This shot captures most of our skyline, as all three buildings (plus one steeple) rise above the field of pebbles left behind when a building was demolished to make way for – well, I guess for a field of pebbles.

Avenue Q and 13th Street
Lubbock, Texas

photographed 1.6.2013

“C” is for chandelier

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(I think it’s probably for the best if we try not to speculate about the origins of that stain on the sidewalk. Instead, let’s look at that “C” in the display window. Right next to the chandelier.)

Broadway, near Ave. Q
Lubbock, Texas

photographed 1.6.2013