Captured by Film

This building sites on the other side of the railroad tracks along US90, a little west of Marfa, Texas. The maps say this is in a community called Quebec, simply noted as Populated place by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. I’m not sure what else is in the town or how many people live there. I’ve passed this a couple of times, but hadn’t stopped to take a photo until my lat...

This is the eponymous windmill for the campsite, speaking to the time when the park was part of a vast, working cattle ranch. There’s plenty of remains like the windmill, cisterns, remains of waterworks and corrals that speak to the land’s history with still cattle roaming the park.

I shot this with a Hasselblad. It’s somewhat of a pain to travel with this camera as...

In early March, I headed out to Far West Texas for a few days of camping in Big Bend Ranch State Park. I pitched my tent at the Papalotitos Colorado camp site, named after the last remaining wooden windmill tower left in the park. The actual windmill lies at the bottom, bent but not quite broken up. There’s also a large, stone cistern, where the water brought up by the pump w...

Redford lies on FM170, the road that runs under Big Bend Ranch State Park hugging the Rio Grande for much of the way. The actual town lies off the highway on the banks of the river. The canoe with the skeletons sits by the sign for Angell Expeditions, a river guiding outfit on the Rio Grande.

This was shot on Kodak Gold 200 a Hasselblad 500 CM and the Zeiss Planar ...

Winter’s not far off around here. The days are already noticeably shorter and the mornings are often cool.

These images are from February when we were in the depth of the cold, dark stretch when the tennis courts and basketball hoops stand neglected.

Taken with on Kodak Tri-X with the Nikon FM.