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Scoreboard Timer

Barstow, Texas

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School

Barstow, Texas

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Navasota

In 2014, at sunset, my parents and I pulled into downtown Navasota for pictures. I walked outside an abandoned hotel, carried my camera, and admired Railroad Street’s timeworn architecture.

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Trestle

Navasota, Texas, 2017 (2020)

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Blues Country

Navasota, Texas, 2017 (2019)

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Scoreboard Timer

Barstow, Texas, 2019 (2019)

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Near–middle–far

Near–middle–far is to a picture what time–manner–place is to a sentence.

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Church

Taiban, New Mexico

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Railroad Crossing

Navasota, Texas

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Lone

Sometimes it’s a long way to get there, wherever that is. Sometimes on the plains, it’s said that the land is so flat that a person can see clear into next week, and on most days, a car will look like a dot on the horizon, and a town will appear as a spot on the map: communities near Amarillo: Umbarger, Wildorado, Washburn. Perhaps doing well is passing through.

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Darkroom Rundown

In a photo darkroom, I see years of effort in every print, and in 2020, I selected pre-cut mats from a reliable source, worked with warmth, and sat with an open window, asking, what do I want to place in this?