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a bird’s nest in the mailbox
There were some subtle signs to tell us that this farmhouse was unoccupied. The holes in the roof. The broken windows. The height of the weeds. A couple of kitchen appliances in the yard. The bird’s nest in the mailbox.
(Although the flag was up, as though someone intended to mail the nest?)
(Also, we scared up a pair of barn owls and saw a snake. For a place with nothing going on, there was a lot happening.)
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
high plains minimalism
I guess if I’m being honest, the term “high plains minimalism” is sort of redundant. I mean…it’s the plains. It’s flat. There aren’t a bunch of trees. Etc.
But on the other hand, this view seemed extra minimalistic for some reason.
Lamb County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
over to the sixes
In all my years of photographing west Texas, I’ve never made this (rather cliched) shot. It’s about time I did, though!
Guthrie, Texas
photographed 8.6.2024
hat/train
I feel like many of you woke up this morning wondering just how far down a dirt road I’d drive in reverse to get back to a cowboy hat that was nailed to a fence post.
All the way, my friends, all the way.
Deaf Smith County, Texas
photographed 8.4.2024
the dawn of the adventure
Sometimes the most random events end up connecting themselves in ways that you couldn’t even have imagined, but when you think back on everything it somehow seems perfectly logical and even inevitable.
This is one of those things. I’ll spare you the whole chronology, and will say that this moment captured right here is the result of a bunch of pieces of things that started lining themselves up fifteen years ago.
This was start of a big adventure, when my friends Don Toothaker and Chuck Doughty came to Texas from Massachusetts* and we spent a delightful run of days driving around, stopping for photographs, laughing, talking, stopping for photographs, and then, when we thought about it, we’d also stop for photographs.
It was the best time. And we hope it was the first time of a series of similar drives.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
*Ha! Ha! Yes! I did get them to come to Texas in August!!
One Day | One Image 