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I needed to get out with my camera…so I headed out without any real idea of what I was wanting to photograph or where I wanted to go. Somehow I ended up in a part of town I rarely go to and had never photographed.
Currently this building is the Chatman Health Center of Lubbock; the building was originally the Chatman Hospital. It was opened in 1945 by Dr. Joseph Alvin Chatman and for many years it was the only medical facility in town serving Black patients. The 16-bed hospital had two operating rooms, exam rooms, an x-ray facility, a laboratory, and a nursery.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.10.2023
fall at the falls
January 1, 2009: that was a fateful day. But like many fateful days, I didn’t recognize it as such for quite a long time after.
January 1, 2009, was the day I decided to start a photo-a-day blog. I thought I try to do it for one year and see how it went. It was a stunning* success: at the end of that first year, I did have a total of five (5!) followers, placing me well into the single digits. For some reason, that dismal record didn’t deter me. I thought I’d give it another year, and then one more, and anyway, this year starts my 15th year of posting a photo every day.
Posting all those photos (~5,000 in total) turned me into a photographer. But the main thing that happened – and it’s one I never saw coming – is that I made friends this way. Good friends; some of my favorite friends are other photographers. It’s been an amazing journey, with a lot of good things happening along the way. So thanks to all my photographer friends, the ones I know and the ones I haven’t met yet. Y’all have helped make what was, frankly, a snap decision to post photos into a passion that means more to me than I can even say.
And I hope I’m still doing this in 15 more years….
Dochart Falls – near Killin, Scotland
11.18.2023
*Depending on how sarcastic you want to be with the word “stunning.”
death lends a hand
…and so this ends another year of posting daily images. This image is from a graveyard in Scotland; I was attracted to that hand reaching out from the face of the marker holding tight to…something.
And, on another note, today is 18 years since my beloved mom died, after a fall at her house. I usually don’t plan out my posts – they just land where they land – but this year I saved this image from Scotland to post today. It seemed fitting. (Here’s something I wrote ten years ago about my mom and her death. I still stand by every word of it.)
near Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.9.2023
shortly it would begin to rain
Actually, “Shortly it would begin to rain.” could have been the complete weather forecast for the whole time I was in Scotland.
It was almost always about to rain, and this photo was made just before another patch of cold rain fell on us. It wasn’t so bad, once you got used to it. Plus the clouds! They worked hard to enhance the photographs.
near Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.9.2023
One Day | One Image 