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it seemed fitting to be at a cemetery at sunset
Any time I’m close to the City of Lubbock Cemetery, I’ll stop by and check out what’s there. It might seem like a morbid habit. I mean, it might BE a morbid habit.
But still: that evening last month had a lovely cemetery-view of the sunset.
City of Lubbock Cemetery
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.10.2023
mail delivery
Oh, look! I found a (crooked) mailbox on a chainlink fence!
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.10.2023
ghost/mural
The low sun made the partial people on a peeling mural look even more ghostly than they would have seemed in full sunlight…
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.10.2023
corner
I needed to get out with my camera…so I headed out without any real idea of what I was wanting to photograph or where I wanted to go. Somehow I ended up in a part of town I rarely go to and had never photographed.
Currently this building is the Chatman Health Center of Lubbock; the building was originally the Chatman Hospital. It was opened in 1945 by Dr. Joseph Alvin Chatman and for many years it was the only medical facility in town serving Black patients. The 16-bed hospital had two operating rooms, exam rooms, an x-ray facility, a laboratory, and a nursery.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.10.2023
fall at the falls
January 1, 2009: that was a fateful day. But like many fateful days, I didn’t recognize it as such for quite a long time after.
January 1, 2009, was the day I decided to start a photo-a-day blog. I thought I try to do it for one year and see how it went. It was a stunning* success: at the end of that first year, I did have a total of five (5!) followers, placing me well into the single digits. For some reason, that dismal record didn’t deter me. I thought I’d give it another year, and then one more, and anyway, this year starts my 15th year of posting a photo every day.
Posting all those photos (~5,000 in total) turned me into a photographer. But the main thing that happened – and it’s one I never saw coming – is that I made friends this way. Good friends; some of my favorite friends are other photographers. It’s been an amazing journey, with a lot of good things happening along the way. So thanks to all my photographer friends, the ones I know and the ones I haven’t met yet. Y’all have helped make what was, frankly, a snap decision to post photos into a passion that means more to me than I can even say.
And I hope I’m still doing this in 15 more years….
Dochart Falls – near Killin, Scotland
11.18.2023
*Depending on how sarcastic you want to be with the word “stunning.”
One Day | One Image 