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a portal in portales
I had to run a little errand over to New Mexico the other day, so naturally I took my camera with me. And look what I found! Yet another photograph-worthy window reflection. (It’s sort of like an obsession, really.) An observant pedestrian stopped while I made the image, but she looked extremely confused about what was going on, which is not all that shocking, if I’m being honest. Normal people probably really don’t stand a few feet from a building and take a photo of it when there’s a whole world going on just across the street!
Portales, New Mexico
photographed 8.11.2023
papershell
As is it turns out, San Saba is the pecan capital of the world*, so it’s easy to find things with pecan-themed names.
And that’s how it happened that I sat in the Papershell** Bar and had an old fashioned made with pecan bitters.
San Saba, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
* Yes. The world. The ENTIRE world.
**A variety of pecan.
surveillance
I know you are aware that I have a thing for photographing things reflected in windows. I am charmed by the way the camera sees it differently than my eyes do. And I’m enchanted the way reflections layer themselves with the non-reflections, weaving all of it into something that seems *almost* real.
Lometa, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
where is thy sting?
A grave marked by a barbed-wire cross somehow seems more raw, more tragic than if the marker had been a plain white one.
China Creek Cemetery
near San Saba, Texas
photographed 7.22.2023
soft flower in a red sunset
It didn’t seem like the sunset was going to be anything spectacular. But then the sky was gold and yellow and red and there were mammatus clouds.
And yucca flowers, bathed in the surreal light.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 5.12.2023
One Day | One Image 