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rural electrification
A typical scene on the high plains – a farm buildings, some farm equipment, a horizon, and some wind turbines.
(FYI: Those clouds later built up into one hell of a thunderstorm.)
Roosevelt County, New Mexico
photographed 5.31.2026
field of vision
Through careful framing and a wide lens, I was able to fit the entire town into a single frame!
Inez, New Mexico
photographed 5.31.2026
the capture
Yes, indeed I did back up on that one-lane dirt road for about a quarter of a mile because I didn’t think this was something that needed to be left un-photographed. (A more observant photographer probably would have managed to stop the moment it came into view. But I needed some time to decide if it was worth the effort to back up.)
I mean, it’s sort of a cliche to photograph a tumbleweed caught up in a barbed wire fence, but I guess it’s a cliche for a reason.
near Inez, New Mexico
photographed 5.31.2026
tables
Hello and welcome to All The Tables Day, the long-awaited moment when I assemble all the tables in a particular town and make a photograph.
I mean, it’s sort of not as comprehensive as it sounds, as this town only has the one building and it only has one room. But still.
Inez, New Mexico
photographed 5.31.2026
Ps: If you stay for Most Of The Curtains Day, you’ll see this exact same image. FYI.
desert bones
Hey, does anyone feel like a quick trip out to White Sands National Park to look at dead stuff?
I am not actually heading that way myself, but I guess I was just gauging interest. Or something.
Anyway, here’s a photo that I made when I DID go there at the end of last year. And, yes, I was lying flat on my stomach in the sand.
Pushing aside the personal concerns I had about actually being able to get up from that position, I had the idea that the sand felt wet. Not damp, like the packed sand at a beach. But there was a coolness to it that gave me the impression of water lurking somewhere below me. I later learned that the water table at White Sands is only one to three feet below the surface of the sand, which reinforced my initial (weird) thoughts about it.
Also, here’s a Fun Fact: the sand, which is actually tiny eroded particles of gypsum, never gets hot in the sun because gypsum does not absorb heat the way silica or quartz sand does.
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
photographed 12.13.2025
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