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Another unnamed building
Here’s something to try for fun: first, let someone drive you around in an unfamiliar town, on a road that’s not really on a map. Then notice a building that you’d like to photograph. Make sure you’re in a situation where you can’t stop to get the shot. And, then, a few days later, try to find it again.There are bonus points if you can give your Patient Spouse (who is in an unfamiliar role as navigator) vague directions like “maybe the cross street is called Industrial?” or “there were some crosses by the railroad crossing.” And lots of bonus points if you get to town so late in the afternoon that it’s too dark anyway (because it’s solstice, after all). And then the regular number of points if you go back again on another day, have a bit of a “discussion” with the Patient Spouse about how to find the place, but since he’s driving and you’re navigating, then you eventually do locate it.
Just think of the fun!
Also, this: my first thought when we actually did locate the damn thing was that it wasn’t even worth the effort. But by then I was committed to getting the shot, whether or not it was worth it. I’m stubborn that way…
Midland, Texas
photographed 12.25.2018
(but attempted 12.17.2018 and 12.21.2018)
Night/Vision
I’ve been working on a photography project for the past seven months that I haven’t posted here, for a complicated set of reasons. But here’s one image from the project, an outtake, if you will. I shot it through a dirty window, and rather liked the streaky result with the streetlights.
Don’t worry about the project; it’s still in progress, still without a name, but you’ll see it one of these days….
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.22.2018
Woven
An organic fence and some ivy: lovely in muted light, a light that I am not especially familiar with.
Snowshill, England
photographed 6.3.2017
L. P. Sloan: born, died
This tell us all we need to know. Or, at least, all we will ever know.
Shafter, Texas
photographed 11.4.2017
The valiant effort, doomed
They tried, the builder of that adobe wall between two abandoned buildings. But it looks like the new wall will soon meet the predicable fate of the other buildings. In fact, the adobes are already starting to erode, returning to the dirt they’re made from.
Shafter, Texas
photographed 11.4.2017
