Ray and his dogs, period
I love the photos that should have been thrown away. We don’t really have those anymore, not with a little viewing window and delete button on every camera. And yet see how much more personal they can seem? This old find bears the hand of the maker quite literally — in the shadow of a finger that drifted into the frame. And the tilting horizon line, the pen that ran out and had to be gone over in a different color, the corner that was bent and then smoothed — they’re as interesting to me as the hardscrabble landscape and the old truck in the background and Ray, who loved his dogs. Because someone obviously loved Ray.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:48 am
I love this one. It has a very dustbowlish/Grapes of Wrath feel to it.
November 24th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Reminded me of the Kansas farm scene at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz. You can just imagine a cyclone off in the distance . . .