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One Big Small Town

If you take pictures from town to town and put everything together, it’s like you’re seeing one big small town.

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Downtowns

Downtowns accommodate recreational photography. It’s light, shadows, and reflections of ourselves in glass entrances. It’s seeing someone we’re responsible for and committing to being kinder and more forgiving, knowing change requires small steps.

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Carscapes

I did the unthinkable and walked in a city as a pedestrian. The fact that nobody stopped to ask for an explanation surprised me.

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New York Town

I caught the subway and went downtown. Helvetica lettering pointed the way. Passenger cars rocked, rattled, and clanked in the dark, and a platform musician sang Country Roads. People smiled on the boat to the Statue of Liberty, and Manhattan’s mountains rose above the harbor, where I later walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, picturing it as I would in a dry, dusty town.

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TX, Potter, Amarillo, Tyler & 10th

2009-‘10

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Simple Italianate

Simple Italianate houses fascinate me. The City of Cincinnati describes Italianates (1860 - 1890) as two or three stories high, rectangular in plan, with low-pitched roofs. They are brick with metal, stone, or wood ornamentation. A distinctive feature is a cornice. Their design is thin with tall windows, similar to 19th-century commercial buildings.