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play/ground (with tree)
If this centrifugal force death machine somehow fails at its job, there are about a million stickers in the grass and they are ready to take over.
Playgrounds! So much fun! So much danger!!
Haswell, Colorado
photographed 9.4.2024
slide damage
I have a small body of work that includes playground equipment. Slides are particularly well-represented, for some reason.*
This slide, which looks to have had an encounter with a vehicle, is my current favorite. (And will be, too, until I the next time I see a playground that needs photographing.)
Weed, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2023
*I like them. That’s the reason.
the long slide down
I like to photograph empty playgrounds. On a day that’s really cold and windy, and in a town where the population is 65, the odds of finding a vacant playground were pretty good.
Hazard, Nebraska
photographed 12.10.2020
Playground on a dripping day
It’s been a hot summer here in Texas, so to make myself feel cooler, I’m posting this picture that I made on a cold, damp day last December. I found this antiquated playground in a tiny town way up in the top of the Texas Pandhandle.
Mobeetie, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019
The Bleak Playground
I think my dad’s family moved to Mobeetie in the early 1930s; the bank my grandfather had in Branson, Colorado, didn’t survive the Depression so they came to Texas to make a new start. My dad lived there until he and eleven other students made up the graduating class of 1940. He was 16 when he graduated, and he headed off to what was then known as Texas Technological College. (He went from a town of 400 people to a college with an enrollment of just under 3,800. No wonder he flunked out.*)
I don’t really think this playground equipment was there when he was, but I did get a bit of a weird vibe from it. Of course, that might also have been from the cold wind that day…
Old Mobeetie, Texas
photographed 12.27.2019
*Not to worry, though. He retuned to college and made straight As in his chosen field of civil engineering. The most frequently told story of my whole life was How I Was Too Young When I Went To College.
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