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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

Upon Row

I think I thought this photo was about all those seats, rows and rows of them. But now that I look again, I seem to have changed my mind: it’s really about the shadow cast by the stairs.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.8.2018

Waiting/Room

In my explorations of the soon-to-be-demolished auditorium and coliseum, I saw these chairs queued up behind the auditorium. They were tagged and awaiting an auction to determine their new location.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.24.2018

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