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Fade away
The Pecos Valley Industrial Supply Company seems to have faded away, except for the shadow of a sign that’s on the brick wall. This building was empty and Google can’t find it anywhere else.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
Lighted entry
There’s just something about New Mexico – the color palette that is favored on painted surfaces, the desert light, the way the dry air and hot summers bake the color off of wood – that I find particularly attractive.
And, then, when you can add in cracked stucco and an old light above an entry…
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
The end of the line
The remains of the rail line looked skeletal, like dinosaur bones emerging from eroded dirt. But I guess what’s actually going on here is that what’s left of those old railroad ties is disintegrating into the ground and will eventually disappear.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
A wheeled object
There are days when every single thing seems like it wants to be in a photograph, and my recent Saturday in Roswell was one of them. This wheel – which was on a rolling door in an industrial part of town- was particularly insistent about being in a shot, and I was happy to oblige.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
To mark the decline
In the parts of the country where I do most of my shooting, plywood and chipboard are very popular building materials. Unfortunately for the towns and the people who are still trying to live there.
It’s hard to imagine that a structure completely boarded up will ever make a return. And if that’s the case, these boards have marked a lot of decline.
Roswell, New Mexico
photographed 5.10.2014
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