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The Threshold

Art is only the threshold. It brings you to the door, teaches the eye how to focus, and steps aside so you can walk into the rooms where life happens.

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The Universe Observing Itself

We are the universe standing in our shoes.

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Beyond Awful

Whenever I see a perfect picture, I’ll think, surely this isn’t real.

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Bumbling

I embody something infuriating — an average person doing something. The combination of being run-of-the-mill and doing something creative is a frontier.

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Going to Town

A black-and-white picture of small-town Texas is sort of what western swing music looks like — if that makes sense.

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Traveling Kindly

Go without want.

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Poetry

If music is older than language, then that’s probably a large part of it.

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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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Lightweight

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

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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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Enjoying the Day

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

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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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I don’t know what to tell ya

Bad advice permeates. Everyone offers it freely. The rarest thing is something helpful. So don’t worry. Go ahead and make a wrong decision and regret it later. It’s perfectly normal.

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Complaining (a how to guide)

Live a great life. From wherever to whatever, I love taking pictures with my camera. It’s an obsession — a small footprint: prints, posts, and film resting inside a trusty binder.

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One-Eyed Dog

Photography is a gentle way to see oneself alive.

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One Big Small Town

If you take pictures from town to town and put everything together, it’s like 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

Image archives will become unrealistic because we’ll have too many new photographs.

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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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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.