Aledo, Texas 4 March 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
TRAVELING AGAIN 10
The Leslie Gin, Lesley, Texas 12 March 2011This is "the gin" across the road that I spoke of in my last post. I never know sometimes until after I see the images the exact reasons I photograph a particular scene or thing. At times, it's not a single thing, but rather a combination of objects and how they associate, or disassociate across the frame. I think the deciding factor in the above image of the gin was the old tractor tire. For me, without that one single object, this would not have been an image.
Monday, March 21, 2011
TRAVELING AGAIN 9
Lesley, Texas 12 March 2011This is the sort of subject matter that I search for as I travel through the all but forgotten parts of West Texas. The speed limit in Lesley is the same as it is outside of town -- 70 mph. There may have been all of eight buildings in the town, and only three occupied. However, this old store is such a wonderful find. So void of color except the one pump -- so representative of the town itself, void of people except for a couple of occupied houses. Nature is reclaiming the place just as nature always will. While photographing the exterior of the old cotton gin across the street a van pulls up driven by a be-jeweled, heavily made-up (complete with blue eye liner and sparkles, and hair fresh from the hair dresser. She was at least 80, I swear. She sticks her head out of the window and says in a deep west Texas accent: "What's your name?" I tell her I'm nobody, but introduce myself anyway. When she finds out I'm a college teacher, she immediately opened up and told me her history and her relationship to the town. She was born there, and currently back visiting her sister. Her sister still lived in "the blue house right over there where she was born." Told me she was a retired first grade teacher from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Being polite I talked with her about the town and her sister and....etc. Finally told her I had a plane to catch and wanted to photograph the gin before I left. But she had one more story to tell: "See that place where there us to be a sign, my sister painted it, but some bad people stole it, and now she needs to do a new one. Use to say, Lesley Gin.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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TRAVELING AGAIN 6
Goodnight Cemetery, Armstrong County, Texas 12 March 2011
Most people outside of Texas, and many of those current residents of parts other than the Panhandle have never heard of the Goodnights. However, fans of Larry McMurtry's books, (Lonesome Dove, Streets of Larado, etc.) will recognize the name. He was a real person and is legend in that country. McMurtry was very familiar with the area and legends being a native son of Archer City, Texas. People today still pay their respects to the Goodnights by tying bandannas to fence surrounding the Goodnight plot.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
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TRAVELING AGAIN 2
Dunn, Texas 6 March 2011The whole time I was making this image, way in the back of head I could hear Tanya Tucker singing: "When I die, I may not go to heaven, I don't know if they let cowboys in.......Texas is as close as I been." Yeah, I shot it in b&w, too.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
A LITTLE TRIP TO TEXAS 8
Elk, Texas 8 January 2011I don't know that it gets any better than this: perfect place, perfect light, and a perfect sky. And a camera that lets me express all of this with such ease. I really don't think that Kodachrome would have added anything to this image. Canon sensors love red, and my 5D2 produces such rich images.
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