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Travel 32 images Created 6 May 2015

Journeys across the United Stated and parts of Germany.
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  • A former home is seen at dusk on a farm to market road in rural Texas.
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  • A dramatic and haggard former train depot looks out over a broad auto scrapyard in Marathon Texas. The population was 470 in 2007, after growing from 455 in 2000, but had decreased to 430 by 2010.
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  • In 1825, impresario Green DeWitt received a grant from the Coahuila y Tejas legislature to settle 400 families into the area now recognized as DeWitt county Texas. Between 1826 and 1831 settlers arrived from Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and other Southern states. April 1, 1866 marked the first cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail, which began at Cardwell's Flat, near the present city of Cuero.
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  • This former grain storage facility almost glows in the very late day sun following storms that afternoon. The colors have not been manipulated.
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  • A property visibly marked 'No Trespassing' sits along a side road to a Farm to Market route in Egypt Texas.
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  • On the floor of a kitchen or break area in a former mechanic shop remain perhaps the only obvious signs as to what the specific area was. Plastic coffee cups with their owners names on them lay nearby with metal utensils. The grit of the floor is wet with melting snowfall. The light comes from a partially collapsed wall.
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  • An old ford truck sits among the remains of tires and other autos in this long unused mechanics yard. This image was taken after a severe blizzard blew into North Texas and left much of the area covered with snow and ice.
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  • A former homesite sits in the desolate aftermath of a hard winter storm North of Amarillo.
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  • Named after its owner and built in 1945, the Wilbur Krenek cotton gin sits on land now available for sale. The gin closed for business sometime in the mid 1990's.
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  • Situated atop one of the raised hills in Milmersdorf Germany, a boarded and potentially unused agricultural facility rests among the grasses and the sky.
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  • North of Berlin are these derelict Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany) era office buildings. They are as geometric as they are decayed. To make it up to the floor I was shooting from, I had to climb the frames of the stairs as the actual steps had been removed.
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  • A single corner in a small town at night somehow seems to encapsulate a much wider slice of the American cultural landscape at large.
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  • In 1896 Mosheim (formerly Live Oak) had fifty people, a school, and several businesses. From 1941 till the late , 1960's, Mosheim reached its zenith with around 200 citizenry. Thereafter the town began to decline. The Mosheim post office closed in 1976.<br />
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Likely a home, possibly a business, or both, this building remains behind the ruins of the Mosheim schoolhouse.
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  • In 1896 Mosheim (formerly Live Oak) had fifty people, a school, and several businesses. From 1941 till the late 1960's, Mosheim reached its zenith with around 200 citizenry. Thereafter the town began to decline. The Mosheim post office closed in 1976.<br />
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The exact date of construction for this schoolhouse has not been identified. It has signs of electricity being added after initial construction. There is a supported rail on the right of the image, possibly for hitching horses.
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  • I was driving when I saw this area. I witnessed a lot of partnerships between angles and colors, bright and mute, so I stopped and photographed the scene.
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  • A cotton gin facility work bench area sits long undisturbed save for the spiders and rodents that have made their way along the surface, or in the spiders case, have set up a kind of 'home'.<br />
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Named after its owner and built in 1945, the Wilbur Krenek cotton gin sits on land now available for sale. The gin closed for business sometime in the mid 1990's.
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  • Looking down, hundreds if not thousands of small bones, mostly from rodents, litter the top-most wood planks of a ground level and now defunct cotton bale weight scale. Two barn owls living inside the main cotton gin building make sure the rodent population stays low. <br />
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Named after its owner and built in 1945, the Wilbur Krenek cotton gin sits on land now available for sale. The gin closed for business sometime in the mid 1990's.
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  • St. Louis Cathedral ranks among the oldest cathedrals in the United States. The first church on the site was built in 1718; the third, built in 1789, was raised to cathedral rank in 1793. The cathedral was expanded and largely rebuilt in 1850, with little of the 1789 structure remaining. It is one of the few Roman Catholic churches in the United States that fronts a major public square.
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  • Cotton fields in full bloom spread out on sun baked land in Egypt Texas. Shot from the rear of a motel parking, development seems to be encroaching daily into rural landscapes.
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  • A former prayer outreach and ministry sits alongside a highway somewhere South of Bastrop Texas. The fade from the large letters on the side of the house, the Jesus flag waving in the wind, and a bulletin board on the right give away what this building was used for.
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  • A once beautiful and cared for home sits forsaken along Highway 71 awaiting sale for relocation if anyone wants to buy. <br />
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In its prime, this was a lovely home and yard. I had been passing it for over 20 years between Houston and Austin.
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  • Paramount Studios updates their image library from time to time to reflect the changing face of the studio as well as to document its existing history. This image is one of about 10 that show the Iconic Bronson Gate. I chose this image because of the view into studio grounds, the peeking out of the classic Hollywood sign, and because the silhouetted people near the gate are good for 'scale'. The completed images will be used for brochures and website promotion.
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  • Paramount Studios, primary theater. This is one of many images shot on behalf of Paramount studios. There goal with this image and others, is to show that Paramount studios can provide space not only for special film screenings, but can also book events for the public, companies, and private special events. This image os one of 6 that show the theater from different angles. The completed images will be used for brochures and website promotion.
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  • The Booth public schoolhouse began construction in 1911 with completion in 1912. It was one of two segregated schools built in the Booth area.<br />
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Irby Booth, the towns namesake, owned a cotton gin, general store, lumberyard and syrup mill. He founded the settlement of Booth in the 1890s.
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  • An elderly man takes a peek at new construction taking shape on the other side  of a gate in Hamburg Germany.
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