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maybe you and I will not agree

Did this guy break my composition by walking into it? Or should I pretend I planned it that way? Was it wrong to line up the pedestrian across the street with the mannequin? Should more stuff be in focus? Should it have been processed in black and white?

San Francisco, California
photographed 4.13.2019

that welcome seems a bit worn out

Well, sure, the sign DOES say “welcome.” But there isn’t really anything else around to support that, is there?

Irony, I guess.

Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.22.2021

no one every really leaves

The road wasn’t paved all the way to this remote, windswept place.  That was, of course, part of the charm. And part of the adventure of the day.

Quay County, New Mexico
photographed 6.5.2021

shadows reveal what was there all along

From my angle, those horseshoes blended in with the bare cemetery dirt, leaving the late-afternoon sun to reveal to me what was in fact there all along.

Quay County, New Mexico
photographed 6.4.2021

wire hangers

People think they know what the French Quarter looks like – and, mostly they are right. It does indeed have a lot of wrought-iron balconies and bars and street performers and booze.

But, because it is a neighborhood where actual, real people live, it’s also got things like dry cleaners. And wire coat hangers.

New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 1.8.2016