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A.D. 2009 in photographic review
January: I was still in Seattle, but at that point I was beginning to see that I had to leave soon or else face irrecoverable mental strain. Nevertheless, it was a creative time for me personally — it really wasn’t so bad being unemployed in a city that you can easily walk.
Downtown Seattle from […]
Pennsylhoma, or Oklavania
I decided that this place needs a name other than the Arbuckles, or South Central Oklahoma. Clearly this state wasn’t just settled by a bunch of too-soon hicks looking for Indian land to call their white bread own, as the town names signify. When one travels southward, you encounter Paoli, Wynnewood and Ardmore, […]
Gloomy (sunny) sunday in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, a place I have never visited as an adult until yesterday, was always just a placeholder in my mind — where my great aunts live(d), a prairie town eager to be a metropolis, an awkward entity in a number of ways (a city located in a state where cities are despised as saltmills […]
Terms of endearment for Houston
I can’t be mad at Houston, for I don’t think most people consider how liberally its name has been affixed to what might be “Elsewhere” in other states or countries. After all, if other cities in the US had developed with such limitless extra-territorial jurisdiction as Houston had, then we would see a Miami […]
Austin from alternate angles
From Zilker Park, the Mopac main lanes, and Riverside Drive at Ben White.
I don’t know about you, but I need to get out of town; I am getting so tired of photographing the same things over and over!
July 2009: Photographic month in review
It looks like I was jetsetting in the insular Club Med that is Travis County, but in reality, it was one of the most difficult months of my entire life.