July 5, 2008This morning I had an assignment for the paper that took me pretty far out of town. After my last stop, we were only 11 miles from Dublin, TX, home of the world’s oldest Dr. Pepper bottling factory. It’s a Texas institution, so we felt like we had to stop in. They [...]
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June 30, 2008City employees Edward Gonzales and Joe Banda help unload a trailer as part of the Fort Phantom Hill Lake Association’s Annual Neighborhood Clean-up. Abilene Solid Waste services had several trucks and more than 15 employees on hand to assist with the clean-up.
Some random thoughts from my notebook- highly unorganized and only slightly edited:
This past [...]
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June 27, 2008Who would have guessed that a set of 6 Andy Warhol signed, limited edition silkscreens, and 4 Salvador Dali signed, limited edition prints, would reside in a condo in Abilene, Texas?
Read the rest of the story here.
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June 27, 2008A random shot from a horsemanship clinic I was assigned to shoot earlier this week. I liked the juxtaposition of the rough and hard lines of the boots with the feminine name inscribed on the spurs.
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June 25, 2008Kordia Miller, 11, prepares to ride “Acorn” at the Texas A&M Horsemanship Clinic on Tuesday at the Taylor Co. Expo Center. Students from A&M have been performing these clinics all over Texas for 36 years. June 2008.
A single that ran in color on the front page of Wednesday’s Abilene Reporter-News, a little local flavor for [...]
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June 23, 2008Hikers set off on the 8-mile trail around Lake Abilene as part of the Mayor’s Hike Around Lake Abilene on Sunday. More than 50 people participated in this event, the first of it’s kind. June 2008.
Dennis O’Connell of Abilene celebrates at the end of the Mayor’s Hike around Lake Abilene.
This was a busy weekend [...]
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June 20, 2008Last year, I was helping a friend prepare a presentation on his experience surviving the 1994 Rwanda genocide. I turned to Flickr to find some images to supplement my own, and while surfing around, I saw this image as a little thumbnail, and thought I recognized someone in it. I went in for a [...]
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June 20, 2008“Witnessing pain and sadness is an act of love.”
- James Nachtwey, Look3 Festival 2008
(in response to the question “When you see so much pain and so much sadness, do you feel you still have the capacity to love?”)
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June 20, 2008A scene from the Painted Desert in the Petrified Forest National Park. August 2007.
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June 20, 2008Concrete pilings in Puget Sound, Seattle. July 2007
For the VFXY Photo Weekly Theme.
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