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Shrine Shadows
There are many things I don’t understand, and I think that photographing them may help me think about them in a different way, or at least think about them at all.
Out there on the far side of Brownfield there is a roadside shrine: a tall cross, a grotto, floodlights – the whole thing. I’ve photographed it twice. I still don’t really get it, but this time I did learn that diffused and shadowy light outside can still make interesting shadows in the grotto.
So, there’s that.
Terry County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
Stop. Stop.
I don’t know. As far as I am aware, the Texas Department of Transportation doesn’t have any guidelines that mandate two stop signs at intersections that are extra dangerous. And I’ve traveled miles (many, many miles) and have never encountered a double-stop sign. So who knows?
But at least I did the right thing, from a photographic standpoint. I documented what I found.
Terry County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
“mistakes were made”
Yes, definitely some mistakes were made here. Lots of them. All of them were my doing.
The truth is that I don’t know where this was taken. Or what it is of. The photos on either side of it don’t offer any useful clues, either. But still, in spite of knowing nothing useful about the subject, I rather like the effect. Focus? Decisive moments? Composing and waiting? Has all that stuff been optional all this time??
Yoakum County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
State Bound – how exciting!
Wow! State bound!! How exciting. I only hope their efforts ended on a happier note than these businesses did.
Plains, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
it had been a wet spring
The mud around this abandoned building (a school? a church?) was formidable, and after consideration of the mess that would be involved, I marked further exploration of this place as “come back when it’s dry.” And, as a sort of a consolation prize, I photographed the flowers instead.
I know: a poor substitute for what I was really after. But it was the best I could do that day.
Terry County, Texas
photographed 6.27.2021
