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Book Burning 3: Derision
Here’s one more burnt book. I love that the word “derision” is almost the only legible word. I love the texture that the wet book took on as it dried. But mostly, I love that it reminds me of a chrysanthemum in full bloom. If, you know, chrysanthemums were made of paper and were charred and wet from a fire and were in black and white.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.38.2021
Book Burning 2: Crisis Forecasting
This photograph is the absolute truth: a book open to a chapter titled Crisis Forecasting was right there at the scene of the fire.
Sometimes I think finding things like this is the very reason I became a photographer.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.38.2021
Book Burning 1: Ansel Adams
There was a fire in downtown Lubbock last month; some apartments, a barbershop, and a used book store were destroyed. Naturally, my camera and I went out to look around; by the day I explored, the salvageable things (metal joists, mostly) had been pulled out to one side and everything else was pushed into a pile. And, shining like a beacon from the pile was Ansel Adams’s autobiography.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.38.2021
(a short story)
After her mother finally died, Muriel decided it was time to learn how to play pool.*
Alpine, Texas
photographed 3.24.2021
*A short story. I didn’t actually, you know, talk to the pool players.
Rodeo Portrait 3
Here’s the last of the rodeo portraits that I made earlier this month. And you know what? I didn’t even hate doing this!
Levelland, Texas
photographed 4.2.2021
One Day | One Image 