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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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Abandoned Buildings

Abandoned buildings dot rural Texas, but if restored, they’d make great workspaces, and I’d gladly rent one.

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The end of photo archives

Many new photographs will exist. Image archives are unrealistic because we have too many photos.

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A Home in the Monochrome

In every color image I take, I see a black-and-white photographer trying to escape. It’s black-and-white or bust. Mine are pictures of rust, dents, and dust.

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Photography

Photography’s reward is doing photography. If you’re interested in something else and using photography in it, then you’re interested in something else to some extent. Something else could be the subject matter or the venue where images are shared. However, to be embedded in photography is to be present with the medium and making images.

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Far from perfect

There are things we can control and things we cannot. There are things we can get out in front of and things we cannot. Therefore, we must do is our best and grow. It’s life.

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More Modern

Art made more sense in horse and buggy days because the technology of 1855 more closely resembled that of 1555 than 1955. The first tintypes appeared around 1855, making photography more modern.

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Calm

In a sea of chaos, be an island of peace.

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The Bigger Picture

There are many things to learn. The point of the arts isn’t to make a living doing art. Instead, if done well, we’ll witness the lived reality of the person making something become more widely known.

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Traveling Kind

Art includes the freedom to wander off. If someone says that they want to be an artist, that’s like trying to write words around the unexplainable. Why do it?

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In our lifetime

We’re our age for a short while, yet the present touches eternity.

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The problem with mirrorless

Someday we’ll call it a camera with interchangeable lenses.

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Burgers, Fries, and Onion Rings

To see a photograph, we must forget that we’re viewing one. To see photography, we must acknowledge mood and atmosphere.

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Influence

Despair is progress misinterpreted. Make a stranger laugh. Focus on what you enjoy more than the attention it brings.

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Wings on Our Shoes

Freedom is time with your thoughts and knowing they’re not yours. I can color-correct monochrome images exceptionally well, and the worst part of country music is drunken meanness.

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Picture Maker

Analog nudged me into monochrome; digital let me stay there, and offset lithography kept me closer to home.

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How it all began

If it hand’t been for West Texas, I probably wouldn’t have dove into monovchromramatic photography. If it hand’t been for school, I probably wouldn’t have dove into monovchromramatic photography. If it hadn’t been for the 1990s, I probably wouldn’t have dove into monovchromramatic photography.

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Leave something better than you found it

You don’t have to be anything. Fly to any city in the US to see the same stores, cars, and roads. Too few pictures capture our lived reality.

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Eyesore

In saying very little, I stood closer to what I had to say and encountered it before I knew what it was. Brag about eyesores if there’s almost nothing nice to say.