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2 barrels and a sidewalk

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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

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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

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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

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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

Holding up the sky

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Another sky view from Yellowhouse Canyon – this one looking west. Those mesquite branches look as though they are hard at work, holding the sky aloft.

Here’s the view to the south. And to the east.

Yellowhouse Canyon
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 6.6.2015