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This was a remarkably well-ordered picnic site, with two tables, a grille, and a trash barrel all lined up more or less on that little island. I am pretty sure the barrel on the right is making sure they stay in formation.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.22.2016
2 barrels and a sidewalk
Just because I felt like it*, I rented a camera for a week, and to feel like I was getting my money’s worth, I took it everywhere. I used to do that with my regular camera, but got out of the habit.
I went to the park (which you saw here and which you’ll see again tomorrow). There were lots of things to see, because I was looking on purpose for things to shoot. I used to that a lot, too, but got out of the habit.
So an unexpected consequence of the rented camera was a reminder that I’d gotten lazy, and was missing a lot of subjects as a result. That made a week’s rental an especially good bargain.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.22.2016
*or, to translate into Texan, I had a hankering.
Netted
A park, a volleyball net, and (in the distance) a hospital complex – all spotted during a post-lunch photography stroll.
Maxey Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.22.2016
There was no explanation
I just really don’t have any idea what this was all about. There’s not one thing there that makes the least bit of sense to me.
(UPDATE: the chairs, lamp, and table are gone. Only the curtains remain.)
(UPDATE, updated: My friend Ron is Facebook friends with an woman named Terry Gilmore Fritz, who did the installation as part of a photography class. According to Ron, she set it up so passsersby could “shoot people while in the scene.” So it totally makes sense that I saw it, stopped, and made photos without people. That’s comforting, somehow.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.4.2015
The sky was the art
I was talking to some people but keeping my eye on the artful sky. I think they probably noticed that I wasn’t fully in the conversation…
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.5.2015
One Day | One Image 