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snow white

I just can’t help myself: no matter how many abandoned businesses I spot in my travels, I still have to photograph them. I guess when I see a new one and DON’T want to get an photo of it, I’ll know the photography gig is over…

Portales, New Mexico
photographed 8.11.2023

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