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proper shoppers
Oh, sure it says “proper” and it looks all ranch-y and friendly and whatnot, but it doesn’t have the sort of clothes any ranchers around here (or anyplace that I’ve seen) wear. I guess that sign in the window – the one for a company based in Hollywood – was the clue that I missed before I went in…
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.24.2022
sisters
My workflow is probably weird. But it works. What I do is edit the photos a couple of weeks out from the day they’ll post. I give them a title, and start the blog post. Then closer to time, I’ll write whatever I think needs to be said.
When I saw a post that I had titled “Sisters” I didn’t have the faintest recollection of what the photo was. I am not in contact with my own sister, so the topic isn’t exactly something that I talk about or photograph or anything like that. And I was temporarily confused.
And then, when I looked at the photo, I remembered that I’d found a little part of this cemetery that was dedicated to deceased nuns from the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur. That made a LOT more sense. (By the way, the Sisters of Namur were established in Namur, Belguim, and have had a presence in Fort Worth since 1873.)
Oakwood Cemetery
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.24.2022
downtown rectangles
I love to look out of hotel room windows. (I know that’s weird, but if it makes you feel any better, I do plenty of things that are even weirder. Never you mind what they are: just accept it.)
Anyway, looking out from the 8th floor of our hotel put me opposite the 10th, 11th, and 12th floors of a new condo development under construction a block away. I very much enjoyed all those rectangles. (Also, I shot this on a lens that is as old as I am. Never you mind how old that makes it: just accept it.)
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.24.2022
cemetery bunny
There is just no way a face-down toy bunny in a cemetery is anything but sad.
Oakwood Cemetery
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.24.2022
coverlet
I don’t know if familiarity breeds contempt as much as it breeds photo-blindness.
I would never (never, I say!) even think about photographing the bed at my house. But a hotel room’s bed? I photograph a lot of hotel room beds. They just seem to be a lot more interesting, but that also makes me realize that I am overlooking photographic subjects in my own house.
Fort Worth, Texas
photographed 12.23.2022
One Day | One Image 