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got the blues
I think at some point this building had been a school but those days are pretty far in the past. Now it’s falling down (literally) and filling up with dirt from frequent dust storms (also literally).
However, I greatly admire someone’s decision to go with the blue glazed bricks AND the blue desks. That was a bold decision (maybe) but it’s still paying off (in my opinion).
near Ackerly, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025
sturgeon moon
It really is hard to beat a summer night at a baseball game. And when you can see the Sturgeon Moon rise over the field…it’s just about perfect!
Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025
can’t sink me in sorrow
I’ve lived almost my whole life on the plains, within view of long horizons. Without them, I feel constrained.
Which I guess is why I took advantage of a piece of a horizon and stretched it out into a four-shot panorama. I felt better, too, when I was done and the photo was a little more horizon-y than the camera realized.
Gilbert’s Cove, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015
motors
I’ve been watching the place for a long time, waiting for the abandonment to hit the critical, photo-worthy point. And it’s nearly there…
The day I visited I noticed how those letters were cut from sheets of plywood. And then I realized that the wood grain is going in different directions on the letters and now I can’t un-see that part of it. (That’s a weird relic in my brain left over from when I was learning – unsuccessfully – to sew. Nice that I still remember to lay a pattern the same direction on the grain of the fabric and how hilarious that one thing still hangs around to influence random photographs.)
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
always leave traces in the leaves
I am not necessarily admitting anything, but one way to get something in focus on a manual lens – and this works best with a breeze so things are always moving in and out of the zone – is shoot in continuous mode while generally focused in the vague area you want to photograph. If you hold the shutter button down long enough, eventually something will wind up in focus and then later you can just delete 450 crap photos and get on with your damn life.
NOT THAT I DID THIS.
Posey, Texas
photographed 7.20.2025
