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car/show
When I travel for work, I almost never rent a car. Our work conferences are generally in a walkable city, which is a delightful change from the non-walkable place I live, and my work friends and I enjoy walking to dinner. The other night, we were waiting to cross the street and I glanced up just in time to see the World’s Longest Car™ turning the corner.
Now, if I’d had my photographic shit together I would have taken one of those cool photos where I panned to match the speed of the car, making in it focus, and blurring the background. However, I did not have my shit together. And I have also never successfully made a photo like that. And when those photos are bad, they are REALLY bad, with everything all wonky and blurry, so I guess it worked out more or less for the better.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.5.2026
A Thing I Learned: I wanted to use ® after “World’s Longest Car” but when I was looking for the keyboard command for the sign, the Google informed me that there was a “strict rule” about usage, and that just adding ® for fun is actually not even legal. Sometimes looking something up just sucks the fun right out of it. (Using of ™ is not similarly protected.)
comparative religion
I don’t even mind admitting that it took me a lot longer than it should have to remember how to use the “miniature” effect that’s built in to my camera. Turns out that actually looking up how to do it is a lot more productive than just randomly poking at camera settings, which honestly is sort of a shock. Only, of course, not a shock at all.
And, now that I’ve figured it out (again) it’s actually quite easy. That’s the part that’s embarrassing: that I forgot the perfectly simple way to do something silly. That doesn’t seem like me.
But anyway, here’s a shot of St. Mary’s Catholic church which is on St. Mary’s Street.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 10.6.2026
similarities
I remember when I saw this a couple of years ago – I almost hyperventilated at the sight of two things that were so different, yet somehow almost the same.
I remember my traveling companions rolling their eyes at my breathless state.
I remember making the photo.
What I don’t remember is why I never got around to posting it until now…
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 5.19.2022
trash/stairway
San Antonio’s famed Riverwalk is below street level, which adds some interest to walking around. If you get really lucky, you can see the street-level entrance to a bar or restaurant and at the same time spot the river-level back stairs where last night’s trash awaits collection.
In this case, I was looking at the back stairs to Dick’s Last Resort while standing next to the street-level doorway; a little bit later that same morning, when I was on the river, a man setting up tables for Dick’s L. R. called my attention to cat that was stalking a couple of ducks*. That was a nice bit of coincidental symmetry.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 5.18.2022
*The ducks escaped a feline-induced end when the cat ran away. In case you were worried.
alley, with bird
I will always look down an alley. And I will generally photograph it, especially if there happens to be a cooperative bird in the vicinity.
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 5.18.2022
