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number 8, on the move
Number eight, over there on the right is in the fifth grade. She’s been playing soccer since she was in pre-Kindergarten. She’s also played volleyball, basketball, and softball. She plays golf with her dad and can’t wait until she’s old enough to run track at school.
This season, she’s also playing flag football so there are two games almost every Saturday.
And she’s my granddaughter Bennett.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.21.2024
room with a (bad) view
For some reason this particular abandoned farmhouse had a concrete foundation and floors, unlike many that have crawl spaces below rotted wood floors.
And for that very reason, I went ahead and stepped in for a look around. I can’t explain why, but this scene has a certain weirdness about it – the view, the angles of the window and mattress, the mattress itself, the dead tree…or maybe all of it.
Additionally, there were quite a few single shoes lying about. I don’t want to know why.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
mr. ellis at the pit
I could not be more serious about this: go down to the Depot District one of these nights, the later the better. Look for the BBQ pit building on the corner of 18th Street and the alley. Get yourself some chicken in a flour tortilla. You’ll see Mr. Ellis himself at the grill, with his roll of paper towels on hand as he serves up deliciousness.
(Bonus activity: take the burrito with you, sit outside in the night, and enjoy friends and bbq and conversation (and whisky). It’s the perfect way to end your day.)
Big E’s BBQ
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
the dawn of the adventure
Sometimes the most random events end up connecting themselves in ways that you couldn’t even have imagined, but when you think back on everything it somehow seems perfectly logical and even inevitable.
This is one of those things. I’ll spare you the whole chronology, and will say that this moment captured right here is the result of a bunch of pieces of things that started lining themselves up fifteen years ago.
This was start of a big adventure, when my friends Don Toothaker and Chuck Doughty came to Texas from Massachusetts* and we spent a delightful run of days driving around, stopping for photographs, laughing, talking, stopping for photographs, and then, when we thought about it, we’d also stop for photographs.
It was the best time. And we hope it was the first time of a series of similar drives.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
*Ha! Ha! Yes! I did get them to come to Texas in August!!
rainbow
You may recall that for a really long time, I shot only in black and white. That was my thing. There was (from what I could tell) no reason to even think about doing anything else.
But this right here? With all the color?
Maybe I’m changing my mind…
Lubbock Pride Fest
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.22.2024
One Day | One Image 