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rest in the place of light
I’ve made hundreds of photos of this cemetery and (what’s left of) the church but I’ve never stopped there at night.
That night in Santa Rosa was just perfect: the temperature was exactly on the edge between warm and cool, there just the tiniest breeze, and the skies were clear. It was far too nice outside to go sit inside a hotel room so I did that thing photographers do. I stopped to take a few pictures of this place and was there for the better part of an hour. Passing traffic helpfully provided a bit of light painting.
Also: I did step inside the graveyard. At night. By myself. And wasn’t even creeped out one bit. For whatever that’s even worth.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
ever rest
I might have stayed a little longer to work some things out on this composition, but the (very) nearby dog sort of indicated that perhaps I had already overstayed my welcome.
(I have what I hope is a completely irrational fear that loose, barking/snarling dogs fully intend to eat one or more of my legs.)
Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024
magical lights
I will always fall in love with a nighttime street that’s got lights hanging over it. Always. Every time.
I mean, I don’t fall in love with it enough to photograph it the “right” with a tripod and focused and stuff. But anyway, my brain likes this more ephemeral look so my brain and I are going to make you look at this version. That’s the way we roll.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
privacy curtain
You know how sometimes you pull into a little town and it seems friendly and you think about stopping for lunch or a coffee so you can have little bit of time chatting with the locals? And then later you check VBRO because it seems like maybe you’d like to go back for a long weekend and you wonder what your options are?
This town is…not that sort of place.
Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024
pivots around water
A lot of farms around here are irrigated by center-pivot systems and their spindly frames and slow-motion circles are familiar sights. But for some reason, getting to see one in operation right next to the road is a rare thing; when my photographer friends and I saw this one, of course we stopped (after making the traditional u-turn) to get a closer look.
And photographs. We also got photographs.
Hockley County, Texas
photographed 8.3.2024
One Day | One Image 