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plastic-wrapped, 1
My main rule is that if my friends Ron and Cheryl call up and offer a day-long road trip, the answer should always be an enthusiastic yes. And when Ron says for me to be sure and bring my cameras “just in case” the only thing left to do is coordinate what time they’ll stop by to pick us up.
And that’s the story of how I happened to see this plastic-shrouded piece of agricultural equipment along the highway.
Olton, Texas
photographed 7.19.2025
something doesn’t seem right
Good gracious! Something seems amiss here.
But the worst thing (possibly) is that no one seemed to notice; they were just going about their day not even caring that there was an armless man piloting the boat through thin air while also blowing a sizeable amount of smoke out of his mouth.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 5.30.2025
red light district
Of course my eye was drawn to the only bit of color in the scene…even though what I’d gone over there to photograph was the remains of a building on the right side of the image. Now I can understand that the building-husk was just the bait to lure me in.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025
there’s always a water bottle
Fun fact: almost every abandoned building will have at least one water bottle gathering dust along with the other discarded parts of someone’s life.
Muleshoe, Texas
photographed 7.14.2025
through longing and through pain
This is a shock, right? Can you even believe that I’ve made such a swing from abandoned monochrome downtowns, to this?
What happened was I took a class on macros and close-ups, and we had homework. At the same time (but unrelated, probably), I sort of re-injured my surgery foot and had to be non-weight bearing for a few days. That meant that a trip to New Mexico had to be cancelled and my plans to do my homework in adobe churches or whatever fell all the way apart.
My dining room table turned into a studio and I gathered up things I could carry to the “studio” in one hand while I navigated the knee scooter with the other and they became my subjects.
I’m still not happy about the surgery setback (it’s much better now) or the cancelled trip (I’m still sort of stabby about that) but those things conspired to lead to me shoot something I’d never even given the slightest consideration for a photograph.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 7.12.2025
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