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Grafitti at an abandoned service station in Kingsville.
One of several projects, that explore photography as evidence amongst other ideas.
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Lebanon ME. Next door neighbor says he's been waiting months for the evicted tenant to remove all the "rust" from the property. I can't drive by an arrow like that without stopping for a photo.
Bakersfield, CA. I saw this place from a block away and decided to go take a shot of it. There were two tire places side by side. The man from the other tire place told me that the man who painted this place was blind in one eye and had 15% vision in the other eye. He had to work in the evening because the sunlight bothered him. I think this is excellent folk art. And it almost has a little David Hockney quality to it. I usually post toy camera pictures. This is a cheapo digital off the peg camera. But not low-res enough to be a toy. But this was by far the best shot of this section of the building that I got.
Kamera: Zenza Bronica SQ-Ai
Linse: Zenzanon PS 50mm f/3.5
Film: Ilford Delta 100
Kjemi: Rodinal (1:25 / 9 min. @ 20°C)
Robert L. More gas station was built circa 1914. Sold wholesale and retail gasoline and did auto repairs. Full width streamline canopy added around 1942. Regarding the second floor...it was a private museum More had installed that contained the nationally recognized collection of bird's eggs that More's father had assembled beginning in 1888. The station has been featured in an American Pickers episode called Texas Treasure. Permanently closed.
Tire shop in Bakersfield, CA with very cool pictures and lettering. The previous picture has a longer story about it. Superheadz Wide and Slim. Fuji 400 film.
The Flea Jump Drive technology (FJD) has been developed during the last years of the Long Independence War (2781-3013) that opposed the Terran Prosperity Sphere (TPS) to the Orion Freedom Coalition (OFC). It was basically the oldest colonies surrounding the Earth against the ones who went far into the the Milky Way’s Orion Arm.
In a desperate attempt to keep her colonies, the TPS built six lethal weapons between 3011 and 3013: giant laser cannon spaceships featuring the recently discovered FJD. Capable of striking entire continents on planets far in the galaxy, these Flea Jump Driven Laser Weapons (FJD-LW) luckily never got to be used. Their existence somehow leaked, which provoked protests and riots even on Earth, accelerating the Terran Prosperity Sphere political collapse that lead to the armistice.
Five of the massive spaceships were dismantled, but in the turmoil of the fall of the TPS, the Terran Space Force lost track of the sixth. In fact, at the announce of the armistice, a certain Terran general went crazy, decided to go on a suicide mission against the OFC and took control of the ship on his own. He jumped from Procyon space docks’ vicinity and nobody saw either of them after that…
Four years later.
Lots of ex-military pilots from both sides have founded transportation companies to connect distant planets. The Denebola Freight Co was one of them: a single small cargo ship manned by the 3 only company’s employees and directors: Marcus, Jonz and Aiki, who became friends during the War. While they were salvaging wrecks for spare parts in the Chara 2 asteroid belt, they discovered the FJD/LW#6 orbiting a small rock. To their surprise, nobody claimed the ship. Under the interstellar jurisdiction it was theirs, as long as they dismantled the weapons – and returned the body of the late general who eventually committed suicide a few hours before getting out of air, after realizing he was not able to operate the Flea Jump Drive successfully… Not anybody’s a pilot!
It took Marcus, Jonz and Aiki a good two years to remodel the spaceship. The synthetic quartz used for the laser’s tube was a marvelous (and usually madly expensive!) material that included radiation shielding and autorepair nano-canals. They built a habitat in it from scratch, removed all defence turrets, added some other features and, on 30th of September 3020, officially renamed the ship "Flea", the first private leisure ship not owned by a billionaire, and the only one in her category featuring FJD.
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I took these shots at a place for rescued big cats. These cats are very well taken care of now and are in a natural type habitat. It is at Pug-Mark Park in Mckinney,Texas.