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Like a cell block
This image right here: this is why I don’t delete my images after a quick look when I upload them after a shoot. Nope – I keep everything except the ones that are completely over- or under-exposed.* Because you just never know…
This one was a victim of sloppy shooting. It was crooked and it needed a lot of work to correct the perspective. I tried fixing it a couple of times, but it never worked. Then, the other day, I felt like giving it another try. Why now? I know more about Photoshop than when I’d worked on it before and thought it was worth a little bit more attention.
Still it took a couple of tries to get what you see here, with horizontals and verticals lined up the way I wanted. After that, getting the rough and dark cell-block look I was after was easy.
Quanah, Texas
photographed 12.26.2014
*And yes, that does require a LOT of storage space….
UPDATE:
Someone over on my One Day | One Image Facebook page asked what this shot looked like before I worked on it, so here you go:
Pre-season
Well, now I’m confused.
I saw this at a football field that was adjacent to the school, which led me to (what I thought was) the obvious conclusion that Marathon’s school district had a football team.
But then, I looked at the school district’s website, which listed only cross country, basketball, track, and tennis. Maybe I need to change the title here to No-season?
I also found this: the state board of education counts minutes of instruction now, not days or hours, 75,600 of ’em per school year. Marathon ISD’s website’s calculation is that they are over that by 2,750 minutes. That’s good, right?
Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
By then, he’d mostly moved on
A spartan room and a nearly-bare closet. Oh, and also: insomnia.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 7.9.2016
Interstate Commerce
A little something I saw when I was standing in a hotel parking lot and looking toward Interstate 40.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 3.21.2015
Some more news
One of my very favorite places is the small town of Alpine, Texas, in the part of the state that’s known as Far West Texas. There’s just something about the air, the sky, the food, the art, the people that makes me feel centered and calm.
I try to get out there at least once a year (it’s a four hour drive from home, a short trip by Texas standards), and when I go, of course I take my camera along.
My most recent trip was in July, and I entered some of the photos I made then in the Visit Alpine photo contest.
Late last week, I learned that two of those images had been selected as finalists in the contest; you can see the entire set of finalists here. (Also, my good friend Justin Burrus has a photo that was named as a semifinalist – the fantastic shot of a nighttime train.)
And here are my images, my tribute to a town that I love:
Granada and a Distant Storm
along Holland Avenue
photographed 7.25.2016
Mr. Nichols’s Steer
on the campus of Sul Ross State University
photographed 7.24.2016
