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Taken Seriously

By all standard metrics, I’m a lousy photographer, and that’s fine. 50mm might be the best focal length, and 35 mm the best lens — simply crop in a little.

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Town Scene

Happy, Texas

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Aspect Ratios

Focal lengths and aspect ratios correlate. A 50mm needs a narrower 4:5 to emphasize relationships between foregrounds and back grounds, and on the other side, a 28mm focal length does better with a wider 3:2 because it emphasizes side-to-side relationships that share a focal distance. A 35mm equivalent lens screams 16:9 cinema.

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In the moment

It transitions from play to art as we age, and in learning, it continues.

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Red Truck

Marfa, Texas

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Lightweight

The less we make photography about something, the more it may accommodate.

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Pond

Midland, Texas

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Interstate Twenty

Warm sunlight and desert mountains blanket the horizon. Miles of asphalt fly under my feet. I love being out here among trucks.

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2nd near West County Rd.

Odessa, Texas

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Monahans Motel

Monahans, Texas

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Working Town

If people knew you were out there making pictures, you’d probably get in worse trouble, a proper way of going wrong. Odessa is a working town, and everyone needs a good way of going wrong.

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Taking or Making

In photographing landscapes, places, and found environments, perhaps the difference between making and taking lives in the focal length, where a 35mm takes, and a 50mm makes.

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Roebling Suspension Bridge

Cincinnati, Ohio

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Roadside Bluebonnets

Goldthwaite, Texas

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Enjoying the Day

Interesting places exist wherever we look long enough. Odessa is a real place, nothing touristy about it, so real that it’s utterly clueless about itself in a good way, and that’s why I stay.

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Gas Station

Glenrio, Texas

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Keep Going

If you think it’s bad now, it used to be worse. That’s why I’m not too worried. You are a part of the change you would like to see.

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Layered

A 50mm lens is more front-to-back than side-to-side and compresses things together, perfect for layering foregrounds over backgrounds — more deadpan than a 35.

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Broken, please use other door

A sign at a convenience store says, “broken, please use other door,” and then apologizes for the inconvenience.

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Flat

West Odessa, Texas