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do not vote
I am not a signage expert, but it seems like if you’ve got a message that’s important enough to stick on a sign, you’d want the whole message to be visible. This sign went on for a few more lines, but they were obscured by the wall of the adjacent building.
But anyway, at least you can get a sense of a few of the people someone doesn’t want you voting for.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2023
pedestrian
In case you were wondering (and I am pretty sure that you were not), this is just a random side street heading off from Via Vittorio Emanuele. That group of pedestrians headed my way looked a little intimidating but in fact were not.
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.29.2022
church/flowers
Delivery people were hard at work bringing large flower arrangements into the church. I don’t know if it was in preparation for anything in particular or just a regular Thursday flower delivery.
And here’s one of my greatest missed-opportunity shots, on the outside of the same church. I didn’t have time to really frame the shot, which is why that poor man has only one foot. And it’s also what I call a “fatal error” – a thing I can’t get past. But still: I’m posting it anyway. Caution to the wind and all that.
Chiesa de San Domenico
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 9.1.2023
passo carrabile
The thing is that when you’re from somewhere relatively new (like Lubbock, which was incorporated in 1909) and go someplace relatively old (like Palermo, which has been around for more than 2,700 years) everything seems so rich in detail and history and stories that it starts to feel like very single thing needs to be photographed. And while I did not actually accomplish that lofty goal, I sure did give it a good try, which is why I present this: a pair of wooden doors, a garbage pail, a keypad entry, and a “no parking” sign.
The down side of going to Palermo is that Lubbock doesn’t stand up very well in comparison.
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.29.2022
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