Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]USA TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI 20 March 2006 HI there-- Instead of PAWing this year, I have another project. I started in photography about this time in 1960. By 1962 I had a vague idea of a theme. I wished to capture the Texas Panhandle and the adjacent areas around it. Not the Chamber of Commerce Panhandle, but >my< Panhandle, where I grew up. It's cowboy country--a land, then, at the end of the Dust Bowl. We still had black dusters then, and cold fronts with sustained winds of 75 mph. When they blew through telephone lines along the Santa Fe tracks the sound was pure Gregorian. I stayed with the same theme for more than 15 years and--truth to tell--had I some kind of grant I would gladly spend an entire year trying to capture that area's many moods. Its beauty isn't like that of Colorado, for instance. It doesn't jump out at you; you have to find it. But it's there...some of it, anyway. For the next 74 days, I hope to post one photo a day of this essay. Sadly, most of the subjects are gone. I search for landmarks and cannot find them. Now, they are only here. --Bill Clough http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/Dusty+Sunset+0070+Feb+1962.jpg.html Panhandle Index: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/ Complete Index: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/