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It was all yellow
We spent the day driving around with some friends – those rare kinds of friends who really don’t mind if you want to stop approximately every seven minutes to take a picture of something you saw beside the road. I’ve written about this before, about feeling rushed when you’re with people who are used to your peculiar ways, and how it can have a negative impact on your work. But these friends got it and didn’t mind stopping – in fact, they encouraged it. And, even better: they suggested some places to go that they thought I’d like.
This was one of their suggestions, and it was a treasure of visuals. Like this room, that used to be even more yellow than the way I saw it.
Check back for more shots from the Day of Driving and Photographing.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.24.2014
Urban forest (sort of)
If a “forest” can be defined as “a group of five or more trees within a metropolitan area” then I guess this might qualify. Even though it’s really just some elm trees that came up on their own – the way elms do – and no one did anything about it. And now, they’re big enough and close enough to the building that there’s probably some foundation damage. But I don’t think anyone cares about that, either.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Turns a blind eye
Whatever it was that used to be lit at night now stands in darkness, as the light fixture turns a blind eye…
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Fade away
The Pecos Valley Industrial Supply Company seems to have faded away, except for the shadow of a sign that’s on the brick wall. This building was empty and Google can’t find it anywhere else.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Lighted entry
There’s just something about New Mexico – the color palette that is favored on painted surfaces, the desert light, the way the dry air and hot summers bake the color off of wood – that I find particularly attractive.
And, then, when you can add in cracked stucco and an old light above an entry…
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
