iPhoneography: There’s Pretty in Everyday Stuff

October 11, 2009

Today was a really dreary North Texas day. Not our usual early autumn day — cool, pretty, maybe scattered thunderstorms over the Texas State Fair. Today was more wintery. It was that dreary, cold, gray rainy day that just gets in your bones.

Stacy and I were on our way to the West Side and discussing how photogenic D/FW was. After two great shoots recently in New York and Seattle, I was feeling a little like our great Metroplex was a little hard to photograph. Stacy, on the other hand, spoke of all the great things there are to shoot here and told me how she’d love to shoot all of the tall overpasses here — the Mixmasters, as we call ’em. She loved the lines and how some of them gave the illusion of driving off into nothing. While they are pretty stunning, at the time with the rain pouring down, I wasn’t feeling the D/FW love and was feeling pretty down about shooting in my own backyard.

And then we arrived at Central Market.

“There’s pretty in everyday stuff. You just have to look for it.”   —  Stacy

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