She kinda creeps me out

She kinda creeps me out

She’s smirking & pulling on her dress as though she’s intending to tell a fib. “Oh, no, it wasn’t me that done that! Y’all gotta believe me, the person that done that was Billy Bob, I didn’t do nothing.” This statue has stood in the same place for about fifty years. She is forever 3 years old. She resides in Alabama, quite possibly made there. Any statue that the sun doesn’t touch, grows mold. Giving away her true age.

Maybe i’ll have a coke?

Downtown Birmingham has gone through many changes, both with its people & its architecture.  When I drive around & look at the sides of buildings, they are different from the front.  Its as though companies want to put a modern look on the front, but leave part of its past showing.  That is one reason…

What it means to have a friend like her

I wrote her a text this past Saturday.  I was feeling ugly because the surgery had made me swollen.  The surgery on my back swelled up like a hunchback.  My text said, “Will u still love me if I am ugly in the middle?”   She wrote, “Yes!!! I would love you in a box, i…

Flowers for me

Flowers for me. This picture was taken with one hand holding my iPhone, as still as possible in natural light, coming from a window. The view through the window was the rock covered roof & big machine things. My room was blah, the view was strange, the tv had no volume control, the I.V. in…

The human face

I am known, by few, as a causal family photographer.  I am cheap, after editing all the pictures (which takes bloody hours)  I burn families the whole shoot on CDs, even the candid ones (which are the best anyway).  For $100.  Sad, really.  But the thing is I worry & worry that they will hate…