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the night reflection

I think I’m figuring out the technique of using puddles and reflections…

It was very dark in the puddly vacant lot and I wasn’t even real sure what I was going to end up with. What I like is that the night, the reflections, and the puddles worked together to turn an extremely ordinary setting into something that’s unexpected.

And just as I was walking back to the place where I was staying it started raining. The rain, which brought its friends thunder and lightning, lasted nearly all night. I slept very, very well.

Mason, Texas
photographed 4.11.2026

dark alley

Maybe it’s just the way my brain works, but that pvc pipe working its way up the passageway and into the darkness feels rather umbilical.

Additionally, I don’t want to admit to how many different ways I tried to spell “umbilical” before I got it right. I think there might be something wrong with my keyboard.

Mason, Texas
photographed 10.18.2025

Under the direction of

I haven’t ever seen anything like this – funeral notices are posted outside the doors of businesses on the courthouse square. In the era of instant electronic notifications, it seems like a quaint throwback.

Mason, Texas
photographed 2.25.2018