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Balance seemed iffy
Is it me, or does that building look like it’s about to fall over to the left?
Or does that joist sticking out look like a crowbar, left for a giant who is going to use it to pry the place apart?
Either way, I don’t think the long term outlook is particularly favorable.
Yeso, New Mexico
photographed 3.14.2019
Holes in the argument
That sign does seem to imply – or even promise! – that there’s water nearby. Evidence suggests otherwise, though…
Yeso, New Mexico
photographed 5.25.2019
Stepstool
The windows were boarded up, almost all the way to the roof. There was a gap, though, which led me to use one of my favorite photographic techniques: propping the camera on any available level surface and shooting without actually knowing what I was going to get. In this case, as you can see, I got some shelves that are leaning all kinds of ways, one dangling light bulb, and piles of pigeon (or rodent) crap.
And a stepstool that reminded me of one we had when I was a kid.
Yeso, New Mexico
photographed 5.25.2019
Window/Frame
When I’ve taken classes from the wonderful Sam Abell, he always speaks of the use of internal framing to make photographs more layered and more interesting. Although he was really encouraging more subtle uses of internal framing, sometimes there is a flagrant example. Like right here.
(Maybe all photographers are like this – the scene as they saw and photographed it seems like it’ll be there forever, unchanged, as though the photograph became the scene. I am that way, so when I passed through this town a week after I made this photo, I was very disappointed that the machinery had vanished.)
Yeso, New Mexico
photographed 3.14.2019
One Day | One Image 