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Alpine, TX

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Alpine, TX - July, 2010Flags in the United States, more so than any other place I've ever been, are readily displayed throughout the country, whether it be rural or urban. While walking around Alpine, TX last week this was evident but not surprising. We seem to be a very patriotic country whatever that means in this day and age.

There were two things that promoted this little exploration of Alpine. I just got a new John Prine album that included Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore, a song he brought out of retirement in concert appearances over the last few years. The other was a scene I saw as I drove down a side street. Any other time it would be likely that I would pass the image by, too busy to actually see it. Since I had nowhere I needed to be, I stopped, walked by the house several times and started making images. It's probably the start of a project but we'll see.

This is an outtake of some of those images. I liked it immediately once I saw it on the light table and decide to invest a few moments scanning it while sheet film is in the fixer. How it fits in an overall scheme of a possible project remains to be seen. I think it's likely it won't fit but I'll have to look at it over time to really determine it's worth.

Lately

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Admiral's Club - John Wayne Airport, Jan. 2009I'm going through sheets of negatives in an attempt to get to a darkroom and print some contact sheets. I really miss the ability to see all of my images at once. I've tried to scan the sheets and make a digital contact sheet, but the results have been pretty pathetic, and I don't think I'd care for them much anyway.

For Christmas I received the Jim Marshall: Proof book which really was the push that's driving this a bit. Dan Milnor is providing some inspiration as well. But January has been busy and I haven't made it to the darkroom yet.

As I've been gathering up the negatives I came across this image from last year. I didn't scan it at the time I scanned the other inauguration images but it's grown on me. It's another reason I want to print up contact sheets. I really want to review images from a couple of years ago. Have I improved? Are there images there I didn't notice and has the passing time made them more appealing? I don't know but I'd like to. So it's off to the darkroom in the next couple of weeks and see what I see.