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Influence

Despair is progress misinterpreted. Make a stranger laugh. Focus on what you enjoy more than the attention it brings.

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The Rule of Thirds

View something, then around and past it.

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Education

The kids are smart and will do just fine. It’s grown soreheads like me who I worry about.

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Warming

Warming filters, where have you been my whole life? A wide open sky in West Texas creates a blue color cast, and the warming filter, when white balance is set to daylight, removes it.

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Simple Italianate

Simple Italianate houses fascinate me. The City of Cincinnati describes Italianates (1860 - 1890) as two or three stories high, rectangular in plan, with low-pitched roofs. They are brick with metal, stone, or wood ornamentation. A distinctive feature is a cornice. Their design is thin with tall windows, similar to 19th-century commercial buildings.

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Wings on Our Shoes

Freedom is time with your thoughts and knowing they’re not yours. I can color-correct monochrome images exceptionally well, and the worst part of country music is anger in a bottle.

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Welcome

Navasota, Texas

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Brazos River

Allenfarm, Texas

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Lightroom

We need to be clear about what Adobe Lightroom is and not. Lightroom is software that lets us organize, edit, and develop a personal style. It’s not where we will see our camera’s best imaging quality.

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Compression and Separation

Lens selection is a creative choice made before stepping outside. A 50mm is how a photographer sees; a 35mm is how one thinks, and a 135mm is how one sees and things while driving.

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Railroad Street

Navasota, Texas

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Canon EOS 5D Mark I Classic

With its simple menus and introductory features, only a few SLRs have remained as loved as the 5D.

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Picture Maker

Analog nudged me into monochrome; digital let me stay there, and offset lithography kept me closer to home.

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How it all began

If it hand’t been for West Texas, I probably wouldn’t have dove into monovchromramatic photography. If it hand’t been for school, I probably wouldn’t have dove into monovchromramatic photography. If it hadn’t been for the 1990s, I probably wouldn’t have dove into monovchromramatic photography.

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Leave something better than you found it

You don’t have to be anything. Fly to any city in the US to see the same stores, cars, and roads. Too few pictures capture our lived reality.

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Courthouse

Lockhart, Texas

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Small Town, Big Dreams

Welcome to Wink, home of the Wildcats.

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Musical Instruments

Pampa, Texas

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Eyesore

In saying very little, I stood closer to what I had to say and encountered it before I knew what it was. Brag about eyesores if there’s almost nothing nice to say.

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High Lonesome

It’s a one-room bus stop near desert mountains.