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to move toward the light
You may recall the breathless excitement that I brought back from my trip to Sicily early last fall.
I am still breathless when I think about it, so this starts a week of photos from that trip.
This is the most typical of typical Sicilian street scenes: narrow streets paved with worn-until-they-are-shiny stones, close-set buildings that block out a lot of sun (until they don’t), graffiti on the walls, laundry (often) hanging from balconies. And on and on.
(I guess the only thing in this photo that’s not typical is that the street doesn’t have pedestrians/cars/motorbikes sharing the space.)
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.31.2022
piñata (fireball and advil)
There was a piñata for the little kids, a piñata for the teenagers, and a piñata for the grownups. Ours had Fireball, Tito’s Vodka, and Advil.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.24.2023
uneven usage
It makes me happy to know that more people scrape their bumpers up against that one marked space on the right than they do the other one.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023
mid-air
Little girls at a backyard party…they were very busy having all the fun.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.24.2023
gauzy
Maybe you already figured this out. (I bet you did. It’s really sort of obvious.) I enjoy photographing reflections in windows. And if the windows in question are in a small-town downtown, then I like it even more.
The thing about this is that not that many days ago (3 as of when I wrote this post) I stood RIGHT THERE and composed the photo, yet today I can’t tell you what side of the square I was on, what building had these gauzy curtains, or even what’s real and what’s reflected. The whole thing has my brain a little bit discombobulated.
But honestly, it’s that feeling of not knowing exactly what’s going on that attracts me to making these kinds of images.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023
