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light giving way to darkness
So what happened was that I signed up for an online photography class with a theme of “cold.” Most of the participants, I figured, would be from New England and have actual cold to photograph. I decided the challenge of shooting images on the theme of cold in a mild Texas winter was something I was up for. I spend the two week time that we had to make our images shooting concepts of cold, rather than actual cold. Honestly, while the images themselves were OK, as concepts to illustrate the theme, they were…what’s the term I’m looking for here?…weak. They were weak. They were weak in the extreme.
And then, the very day that we were supposed to turn in our three images for a critique, I woke to actual cold, actual still-falling snow. And I re-shot the assignment.
This is an abandoned cotton gin. I mean, at this time of year, they are all abandoned because the ginning season is over, but this one seems to be permanently abandoned.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 1.24.2023
edge of winter
First of all – thanks to everyone for sticking with my 28 Faces project during February. When I made the commitment to myself to be a Serious Photographer, one of the things I promised was that I would never stop learning, never stop pushing myself. It took me a long time to become confident enough to photograph people and it has been an exhilarating experience. I’ll keep doing it, but for now – here’s some of the “normal” stuff. For a change.
My family call it “movie snow” – the kind that wafts gently down, huge white flakes landing lightly on everything. And then melts soon, before it gets icy and gray and annoying. We had such a movie snow toward the end of January: it snowed in the night and through the morning. By afternoon the weather system moved on and the melt began.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 1.26.2023
Stay Off
I did what the spray-painted warning told me: I stayed off the private property. (There was nothing said about not making a photograph.)
This is the last of the snow pictures; you’re probably relieved. But don’t you wonder what tomorrow will bring?
Slaton, Texas
photographed 2.16.2021
Fuel and Sunset
The light and colors are delicate. The reality is much more harsh and unforgiving.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 2.16.2021
Snow/Bike
Another day of snow meant another day of me getting out in it to take some photos. Most of the photos I made on this particular morning were for a (this sounds weird but is the actual, honest-to-God truth) corporate client I’ve just gotten.* While I was out working on that project, I saw a lone bicycle across the way. And I knew it was worthy of an image.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 2.16.2021
*I know: how ridiculous is this turn of events?!
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