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All the new pandemic graves, 2
Another drone image from the cemetery, where the rough brown dirt, and a plywood cover, speak to the community’s pandemic losses. And to all the families whose dinner tables, holidays, plans, and memories have been forever altered.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.29.2020
Nathan Harvey, drone pilot
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.
still surviving on the street
My reader(s) who live in cold climates would probably not be as enchanted as I was by this angular ice that I found the other morning in a gutter. But on the other hand, that same reader might be amazed at tomorrow’s post.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.5.2020
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
Watchful Eyes
If you’ve spent more than five minutes looking at my photographs, you already know I almost never photograph people. But sometimes, I can tell that it’s time to break my own rule. Like this one right here, with those two official-looking people watching that trio hurrying toward one of the last rodeos that would ever happen in this particular building.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.4.2019
One Day | One Image 