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the happy afternoon
I was in Tulsa the other week, and it was quite an eventful time. For one thing, my collaborative project with photographer VC Torneden opened at the TAC Gallery. Our project is a multi-year look at the forgotten places along Route 66. In case you didn’t make it to Tulsa, you can see those images here.
And some friends of mine came up to the show – some from Texas and one from New Mexico.
And – as if driving like a million hours to get from Santa Fe wasn’t already more than enough, that friend (a great photographer, R. David Marks) gave me a vintage lens.
And then! There’s more!! I used that vintage lens and made some photos on a warm and sunny afternoon. This couple were having a happy day – there was much laughter coming from their part of the park
Guthrie Green
Tulsa, Oklahoma
photographed 4.8.2023
PS: The lens is a Super-Takumar 55mm f2.
white smoke flag of surrender
Look! It’s some sort of spiky plant that’s all done with being green because the summer heat just dried it up. Most of what we saw in Sicily was in the various stages of being brown. You know, the way things look when summer starts tilting into fall. Our guide said in the spring and early summer it’s as “green as Ireland.” Obviously, while I do not doubt for one second the veracity of what she said, I do need to go back in an April or a May to see that for myself.
Oh, and also, there’s a volcano.
Mt. Etna, Sicily
photographed 9.9.2022
two opposing tropes
OK, so here we’ve got a gigantic cowboy hat on the sign, a common thing people like to pretend everyone in Texas wears all the time.
And then, to keep it interesting there’s a chair that is rather throne like.
It is hard to imagine a situation where both of those things would apply to the same person.
Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.26.2023
rental car viewpoint
I was working hard that morning to fight off the slump that I mentioned the other day. I was so determined to get some photos that I decided the view from my rental car was photo-worthy. You may not agree.
Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.26.2023
city sewing
The thing is that the neon looks stitched onto the sign, which seems appropriate for a sewing machine store.
Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.26.2023
