The Fading Neon
The small mom-and-pop truck stops are gone, replaced by large chains.
Billion Dollar Patrol Road
The moral failure here is not about a budget line or a contractor’s check. It is about what happens when a nation decides that its own laws are disposable, and that the public land it swore to protect is merely space waiting to be scraped flat.
Travel Log
In a rare moment of clarity, I’m planning to shoot on a 35mm camera and print at 8x10 on silver gelatin. If I need to go larger, I’ll outsource to a lab.
RV Trailers
Bushland, Texas
Drive-in Theater
Quitaque, Texas
Overpass
Monahans, Texas
Andrews Highway
Odessa, Texas
A Road End
Odessa, Texas
El Capitan
Guadalupe Mountains, Texas
Lightweight
The less we make photography about something, the more it accommodates.
Interstate Twenty
The heat off the asphalt is a physical thing out here, but the horizon stays wide open. I had driven out to Monahans just to check on a building I remembered—to see if it was still standing the way it lived in my head. I found it, recorded it, but the day felt too open to turn back around.
2nd near West County Rd.
Odessa, Texas
Roadside Bluebonnets
Goldthwaite, Texas
Gas Station
Glenrio, Texas
Texas State Highway 17
Saragosa, Texas
Neighbors
Bovina, Texas
Guadalupe Pass
Guadalupe Mountains, Texas
FM 3503
Sand haulers and company trucks roar today, yet in a lost decade, young mechanics revved muscle cars on two lanes, interrupting calm nights before red taillights. It’s been forever since I’ve considered FM 3503.
Carscapes
I did the unthinkable and walked in a city as a pedestrian.
Railroad Street
Navasota, Texas