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another see-through house
My favorite thing when I photograph these abandoned farmhouses is when I can see all the way through them. I can’t explain that attraction, but I guess it isn’t any weirder than anything else I like to photograph…
Crosby County, Texas
photographed 2.3.2024
flight/path
One thing about grain elevators is that they always have live-in pigeons.
I planned on getting a photo of a lot of them flying around this particular elevator, but I just got the one in flight. I guess I could have used AI to add in a big flock, but I actually didn’t think about that when I was editing this photo.
And wouldn’t have done it even if I had thought of it.
But I could have.
Petersburg, Texas
photographed 2.3.2024
in a dusty climate
I am sure my late mother-in-law thought I was a terrible housekeeper*. But I am also sure she didn’t understand living in a dusty climate and the way the damn dust just filters in and lands on everything, despite your best efforts.
(To clarify: this isn’t my house.)
Morton, Texas
photographed 1.26.2024
*Naturally, the blame (or whatever) fell on me. Not on my husband. That was How Things Were. Additional examples can be provided upon request.
broken windows theory
A once-prominent social-science theory, the broken windows theory, argues that neighborhood disorder increases crime directly and indirectly by undermining neighborhood informal social control. Later studies proved and/or disproved this depending on which one(s) you happen to read.
But that’s neither here nor there. My own broken windows theory is that behind the broken windows of an abandoned building there will be something for me to photograph.
Morton, Texas
photographed 1.26.2024
there used to be a grocery store
Of course the grocery store has closed. That’s, sadly, a common thing in these rural towns out here.
They’re replaced by nothing or by convenience stores or by dollar stores, none of which completely fill the gap, but all of which contribute to the rise of food deserts.
Morton, Texas
photographed 1.26.2024
