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WARNING: not my typical sort of post
The gardeners called this the zig zag plant, which seems as good a thing to call it as anything else.
Obviously, this is a bit of a departure from my normal old buildings and/or monochrome work. I was working on this on a day that was cloudy and cool and damp, so maybe I needed a bit of color to brighten the day. Or maybe I just wondered what would happen if…
At any rate, tomorrow will be back to the usual. Thank you for your patience.
Taveuni, Fiji
photographed 6.29.2013
Not an optical illusion
The stairs really did make a sharp turn on the landing – this isn’t some sort of double exposure or Photoshop trickery. (Because I’m not proficient enough for either of those things.)
But aside from the M. C. Escher feel of the stairs, there are some interesting light and reflective effects. And this sat patiently in the archives for 1,940 days until I finally noticed that it had blog potential. I wonder what took me so long?
Lakewood, Colorado
photographed 6.22.2008
Feet, in motion
Plan ahead: next June you should think about going to Denver for the Greek Festival.
There’s food. Lots and lots of good food. And dancing. And clothing. And music. And tours of the Assumption of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Denver.
And, bring your camera.
(Sometime after we watched these dancers, we sat under a blue tent and had some souvlakia and baklava. We shared a table with a group of ladies, all old and all clad in black and all of whom had plenty to say (in Greek) to a younger woman. She didn’t look too happy about what they were saying; it might have been because she was wearing dark blue.)
Denver, Colorado
photographed 6.21.2008
Chair Jail
I am not sure what these chairs did, but it must have been pretty bad for them to be incarcerated. Look at them, pressed against the bars of the chair jail, in their prison uniforms, dreaming of life on the outside.
Or, maybe they are plotting an escape.
I didn’t stick around to see…..
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.29.2013
That one Saturday morning
Nazareth, Texas, is about 90 miles from Lubbock. There are a couple of ways to get there, but one of them involves driving on the interstate, so I almost never choose that route. Instead I go through Shallowater and Littlefield and Spade and Olton and Hart, traveling mostly on a narrow farm road. It’s a nice drive, and I especially like it on winter mornings when the low sunlight catches the spiky stalks left behind in the fields after the harvest.
This one Saturday, I was heading to Nazareth and keeping my eye on the interesting clouds. I could tell that I was going to pass under them at some point along the way, and so it was with a bit of luck that I was in Hart when I caught up with the clouds: it made for a more interesting photograph to have buildings in the shot.
Nazareth. Why Nazareth? Good things happen in Nazareth. You should go, if you get a chance.
Hart, Texas
photographed 11.19.2011
