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Downtown’s Reflections
There’s something about shooting into very reflective windows that I find appealing. You may have already noticed that.
In this case, I feel like just about everything that was going on in downtown Pampa on the night of the 26th ended up in a single image.
Pampa, Texas
photographed 12.26.2019
Left like a shadow on the step
I had plans for shooting this place at night: there would be clouds moving past that I could capture with a long exposure, or maybe the sky would be clear and I could get stars, and the buildings would be dark, lit by only by light accumulating gradually on the camera’s sensor.
Of course – I’m sure you are way ahead of me here – none of those things came to pass. Although it was cloudy through the day, by late afternoon, the clouds had moved on. The building had not one but two giant floodlights on it, which derailed the accumulated-slowly-over-time light inside the camera and made the stars unseeable.
But I had come all this way and had committed to staying the night alone inside the walls of the old fort, so I set up the tripod and camera and set to work.
Presidio la Bahía
Goliad, Texas
photographed 5.6.2019
Train, arriving
The Rail Runner train from Albuquerque pulls into the station. It’s a nice way to see New Mexico from a vantage point that doesn’t include driving on an Interstate highway. There are a few places where the route passes through tribal lands, and photography is prohibited; the time I rode the train, as part of a photography class, the conductors kept a close watch on us during that part of the trip. Fifteen photographers and 30 or so cameras had them on high alert…
(Anyone age 62 and older can ride the train free on Wednesdays. Plan accordingly.)
Railyard Arts District
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 3.15.2019
As the night exhales
…and the night exhaled into the already-humid air.
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 1.16.2019
Creatures in the night
A couple of weeks after I made this shot, my friend with parking-garage access helped me get this photo. The tower is gone by now, but I suppose that heavy-construction equipment still prowls the site, getting things all level for whatever happens next…
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.2.2018
