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ghost riders
Full disclosure, part one: I hate going to the fair. The rest of my family loves to go. I hate it.
Full disclosure, part two: the only reason I agreed to go this year on the Big Family Adventure™ was because I’d just gotten back from that trip where I learned that I could, in fact, take photos that had people in them, and I realized that the fair had great potential for people photos.
Full disclosure, part three: my favorite part of this photo at first was that little girl on the right side. But then I saw those two ghostly blurs at the top, looking for all the world like two scary AF faces.
Full disclosure, part four: I still hate the fair.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.25.2022
last ones standing
It’s hard to find words to describe what I saw in the Valley of the Temples. And my photos don’t do it justice, either.
These are the remains of the Temple of Heracles; it is considered to be the most ancient of the temples, dating to the end of the 6th century BCE. It was destroyed by an earthquake and all that’s left are eight columns.
(To put this into perspective a little bit, the city I live in dates all the way back to 1884.)
Valley of the Temples
Agrigento, Sicily
photographed 9.2.2022
the modest maiden
One thing about aimless wandering through an unfamiliar city is that the history of the places you’ll wander past isn’t something you’re necessarily aware of.
Here’s an example – we found this fountain because we turned down a dark passageway and there it was.
I liked the modest maiden, so I made her photograph.
When I sat down to write this post, I looked up the location on a map and discovered it’s the Fontana Pretoria. Further research led me to this fascinating bit of knowledge: The fountain was originally built in 1544 in Florence, but was sold, transferred, and reassembled* in Palermo in 1574. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the fountain was considered to depict the corrupt municipality of Palermo. For this reason – and because of the nude statues, it became known as Piazza della Vergogna (or Square of Shame). In 1998 a five-year restoration project began.
So anyway, that maiden’s been modest now for nearly 480 years.
Fontana Pretoria
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.29.2022
*Mostly. Some parts of it went missing.
the problem-solvers
You just KNOW these two fellows figured they were solving all the problems in the whole wide world.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 3.26.2021
3 feral chairs and a tire
Just a pile of junk behind a building that was itself in fairly bad condition…
Pyote, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
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