Oh my. This is a piece of mind-boggling breathlessness. Nearly a shrine to the abandoned commode, and yet, there's the creek behind it with what looks like trash along the banks. I cannot avert my eyes, and can't decide if I really want to.
(I am a reader from Southern Oregon, having added you to my Google reader after discovering you through Paul Butzi's blog.)
I just take'm, I don't explain'm. Wouldn't explain them if I could. Truth be known, I don't think there is an explanation. There is a long running campagn in Austin called "Keep Austin Weird." Seems to me that Texas has always been weird and it's just become trapped in Austin.
I have been photographing for more than 50 years first working as supervisor for yearbook and college newspaper. Later I headed the photography department for the News Service at UTAustin. In 1979, I became a Dobie-Paisano Fellow and began to follow a career in freelance and doing my own personal work. My wife's career pulled us out of Texas for the east coast finally winding up in central Massachusetts. Now in my 79th year, I teach both digital and wet darkroom at a small liberal arts university in Worcester, MA.
I shoot these cameras and formats:
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I have given up on film. I now have only digital cameras -- the Canon 6D, and a Pentax 645D medium format digital.
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Oh my. This is a piece of mind-boggling breathlessness. Nearly a shrine to the abandoned commode, and yet, there's the creek behind it with what looks like trash along the banks. I cannot avert my eyes, and can't decide if I really want to.
(I am a reader from Southern Oregon, having added you to my Google reader after discovering you through Paul Butzi's blog.)
There are lots of questions in this photograph. It cracks me up.
wcw and billie:
I just take'm, I don't explain'm. Wouldn't explain them if I could. Truth be known, I don't think there is an explanation. There is a long running campagn in Austin called "Keep Austin Weird." Seems to me that Texas has always been weird and it's just become trapped in Austin.
P'taker
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