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reality can be too vivid
How can you go to Amarillo and not visit the Cadillac Ranch? It’s not that hard: you just don’t go.
But if your Thanksgiving travel plans didn’t work out and you’re bored at home and you decide to go to Amarillo because why the hell not and you’re going to have dinner at the Big Texan Steak Ranch, you may as well go all in and stop at the Cadillac Ranch* since you’re in town anyway. The wind was blowing approximately 1 million miles per hour that day**, so it was a brief visit but still…
Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 11.29.2024
* Seriously, though – how many things can really be called a “ranch” before it starts to seem desperate?
**estimated
horse/tail
Y’all! Y’ALL!!
Can you believe that just before a blond-tailed horse came into the auction ring, a woman with very long, very straight blonde hair sat down right in front of me?
Oh, those photography gods were having a good time!
Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.23.2024
cotton lint
There’s an excellent BBQ place in Slaton; it’s called Pitforks and Smokerings. You need to go, but get there early because they sell out pretty fast.
It’s housed in an old gas station and there’s an outdoor dining area, marked by black net, where the fuel pumps used to be. This is a shot of the netting that slows down the wind*, provides a bit of shade, and snags up cotton lint from the gin across the road.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 11.22.2024
*I almost said “breaks the wind” but realized that wasn’t AT ALL what I was trying to say.
fell
On one hand, this is an absolute mess of a photo. But on the other hand, it’s my favorite of ones I made over at a park the other afternoon. (It’s a genre I’m calling UICM, or Unintentional Camera Movement. I didn’t invent it but am nonetheless an avid practitioner of it. Apparently)
Jan Jennings Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.21.2024
last whisper
Yes, I’m fine.
I bring it up because this is the fourth day in a row that I have posted a color photograph, which is probably a record for me.
Jan Jennings Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.21.2024
