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window-washing day had not yet arrived
I thought what I wanted was for the curtains to be in focus.
The camera thought what it wanted was for the paint drips and dirt on the window to be in focus.
Turns out the camera was right. Sometimes that happens.
Hobbs, New Mexico
photographed 11.13.2023
knotted curtains
I drove all the way from Lubbock to Hobbs so I could take this photo.
(I also ate some delicious posole for lunch and did a little shopping. Oh, I looked at the annular eclipse.)
Hobbs, New Mexico
photographed 11.14.2023
melanie, twice
I have a tiny little side hustle as a kind-of regular speaker at a couple of civic groups here in town. I know – it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, either. But they keep asking me back. (Apparently the good speakers in town are already booked on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon so it’s come down to me.)
A few days ago, I did a presentation on last year’s trip to Cuba and I took the opportunity of putting that together to edit a few images that I didn’t get to last year.
This diptych of the dancer name Melanie were in the new edits. And since I also have a daily post thing to do, I decided to utilize them here as well.
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.6.2022
to be Cuban
Among many other things, being Cuban means to be prepared to wait in line. We often saw lines like this, and never quite knew what the people were standing in line for. At one line, one of our guides reported that the people were waiting for chicken, but that wasn’t even helpful. Did he mean live chickens? Or whole chickens? Or leftover chicken from a restaurant? Or was it a mis-translation?
(That’s just one of the things I encountered in Cuba that I don’t really understand.)
Cienfuegos, Cuba
photographed 11.11.2022
freelens, 1
I was sort of at loose ends the other day. And I’d recently read a little bit about freelensing, so I decided to give it a try.
The thing is that just about forever I’ve been a document-it-the-way-it-really-looks kind of photographer. It’s the way I know to shoot, the way I’m comfortable working.
But this? This was a lot of fun. Mostly what I got were images that were definitely delete-able, but I enjoyed the effect of capturing a weird view of my living room.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.8.2023
One Day | One Image 