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Different Years: a diptych

If you’ve been following along the last couple of days, you know that my collaborator suggested randomly pairing images from the same date but different years just to see what sort of diptych might emerge.

And here’s what I got when I selected One Day | One Image posts from October 17 in 2020 and 2013.

Oddly enough, this pairing works, I think – the peaks of the roof of the church building are echoed in the dancers’ arms.

Dusty, Washington
photographed 9.2.2020, posted 10.17.2020

Denver, Colorado
photographed 6.21.2008, posted 10.17.2013

The Perseverance of Yellow

A foggy day is a good day to take some photos.

If you ask me.

Yellowhouse Canyon
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.21.2021

Failure (Eleven Frames)

In the 1960s, someone thought Lubbock was just the place for an amusement park, so they built one. It was called Rimrock City, and it had staged shoot-outs, a restaurant, a miniature golf course, a zoo, and some other attractions.

It’s been gone for years, although the concrete curbs from the golf course are still there, as are the frames on that ridge that used to hold the letters spelling out RIMROCK CITY. But this is what bothers me about it – was there really not a space before the word “city”? Or did the sign actually say RIMROCKCITY? I sure wish I could remember…

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.23.2021

Spillway

The other Saturday morning, I headed out with the idea that I’d go to a Corvette show that I’d seen advertised. (One of my photography goals for the year is to push myself to photograph things I’d normally overlook, or flat-out ignore.) But it was a foggy morning, so before I went to see the Corvettes, I decided to visit the Dunbar Historical Lake Park. And while I was there, I walked out on the spillway to see what that looked like. And guess what? It looked a whole lot like this.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.23.2021

at midfield

My pal Meyer and I took a drive one day and ended up in Lazbuddie. Because of course we did.

I have a fascination with football stadiums in little towns, so of course that was one of our stops. And look! There’s Meyer, out there in the middle of the field.

Lazbuddie, Texas
photographed 10.15.2017