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Winter Grasses
Sometimes you do a thing on a whim – without any real thought or planning or expectations – and it turns out to be the best thing, the most life-altering thing, a thing you couldn’t have even imagined.
On January 1, 2009, I started a blog, a photography blog. My concept (a rather grand term for what was really more like the vaguest of ideas) was to post a black and white image every day for year. I completed that year, and did another and another and now here we are, as I embark on my 14th year of posting images every day. A lot has happened since then. For one thing, I’ve become a much better photographer. But the main thing is that I have made strong connections with photographers all over the world, and can count some of them as among my closest friends. That is something I never could have imagined.
All of this to say: follow your whims – you never know what can happen.
County Line, Texas
photographed 12.11.2021
Home (with a range)
The owners of this place insist they are going to renovate it. I am skeptical. Actually, now that I mention it, if there’s a stronger word than “skeptical,” then that’s what I am.
Jericho, Texas
photographed 11.21.2021
Vast + Beautiful
“There’s nothing to see on the Plains.” – a falsehood
Here are a couple of iPhone panoramas that may help dispel that line of thinking. The top one is a highway rest area along Interstate 40. (That smudgy grey thing on the horizon on the right side is wildfire smoke.)
The bottom image is from a rest area on a back road in Briscoe County, taken about an hour after the first one.
Gray County, Texas
Briscoe County, Texas
photographed 11.27.2021
Dead Blade
I am not sure what happened to this turbine blade. All I know is that I stopped by there to photograph it on November 21; I wasn’t happy with those shots. So I stopped by there again a week later to give it another try. That might indicate a great level of dedication. Or it might indicate a complete lapse in photographic skills on the 21st.
(It might also indicate a lapse in photographic skills on November 27th, as far as that goes.)
Floyd County, Texas
photographed 11.27.2021
Slats
All of you know (because I mention it ALL THE DAMN TIME) that I like to look inside abandoned buildings.
This place was a service station at a crossroads miles and miles away from any kind of town. And the towns it’s closest to are little (the big one is 2,215 people), so it’s a real mystery why the place wasn’t able to stay in business. But anyway, check out the way that door is sagging down, one slat at at at time – that’s pretty nice, isn’t it?
Hall County, Texas
photographed 11.21.2021
One Day | One Image 