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(Let me brag for just a minute)
I very proud to let everyone know that one of my images was accepted into a juried show at Texas Tech University; the show is called High and Dry: A Photographic Exhibition of Peoples and Places of the World’s Dry Lands. And there’s more: the photo was selected as an honorable mention!
The photo, “How Many Fond Memories,” was featured on the blog in February. The title comes from a haiku, written by my good friend (and collaborator at
The Poetry of Photography) Laurie Jameson. I am sure her lovely words helped sway the juror!
Kudos, too, to my friend Brett Erickson, over at Plainsky Nebraskans. He’s also got an image in the show, and it’s an honorable mention as well.
The show opens on November 23, so if you’re in Lubbock, stop by!
October 27
The front step of the Wee Kirk o’the Heather Wedding Chapel (“World Famous Since 1940”)
Wedding Chapels, 5 of 5
And, to wind things up with the wedding chapels, here’s a little something I wrote after the first time I saw brides walking though casinos:
Nevada Impurities
The brides of Las Vegas – pretending not to notice
the notice they attract – hoist up the fronts
of hoop-skirted dresses and plow through clots
of slot machine grannies, pulling grooms
and bridesmaids in their wake.
Only the dry cleaner back home,
charge with returning the gown
to its virginal state, will see how
satin lace chiffon hems
are embroidered with casino carpet grime.
He’ll shrug as he fits giant dresses
into acid-free boxes,
betting the knowledge will stop with him.
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 5.29.2009
