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can’t sink me in sorrow
I’ve lived almost my whole life on the plains, within view of long horizons. Without them, I feel constrained.
Which I guess is why I took advantage of a piece of a horizon and stretched it out into a four-shot panorama. I felt better, too, when I was done and the photo was a little more horizon-y than the camera realized.
Gilbert’s Cove, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015
shade/fabric
If you do it right, you can get that shade fabric to distort the lights.
On the other hand, if you do it wrong, the same thing will happen.
I think I did it wrong, but I got the same results, so maybe I actually did it right. Who knows?
Anyway, here’s a picture.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
isn’t that always the case?
You’ve probably had the same experience. Of course, I am talking about how many times you realize that the “nightmear” truly IS in the back…
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.10.23
always leave traces in the leaves
I am not necessarily admitting anything, but one way to get something in focus on a manual lens – and this works best with a breeze so things are always moving in and out of the zone – is shoot in continuous mode while generally focused in the vague area you want to photograph. If you hold the shutter button down long enough, eventually something will wind up in focus and then later you can just delete 450 crap photos and get on with your damn life.
NOT THAT I DID THIS.
Posey, Texas
photographed 7.20.2025
it gets me every time
A monochrome of a sunflower field seems like the floral equivalent of a monochrome photo of a rainbow. So I did it.
You may not know that Texas is the third highest producer of sunflowers in the US. Also it takes about 16,000 sunflower seeds to plant one acre, which is interesting because that is roughly the same number as it takes to get through one baseball game.
One Day | One Image 