March 2012
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Black & White Dog
Same name, different content; It’s time to start a new project here at TFA. With the end of the “Alley” series, the format is set: 20 pictures and one self-portrait in the style of the series to end it. The location shots don’t count.
The next series will focus on my dog, Pete. Pete was a shelter rescue, so we don’t know either his breed or his age exactly. We only...
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New Alley
The pictures through Friday of this week were taken in a friend’s alley in the Tech Terrace area of Lubbock. All the previous pictures were taken in my own alley south of the loop.
-Rob
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Philosophical Ramblings
Last week Tylerpedia reblogged a post from TFA (pronounced “t-fah” by the way) and commented that “putting it all in the same setting really makes it.” This really spoke to my own dilemma in beginning this project. I love Hipstamatic and am not afraid of being labeled a fanboy because of it. It, along with the vastly superior optics when compared to my last phone, was a big...
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“The link you are trying to visit has been identified as potentially unsafe by...”
– Thanks, McAfee! Yes, -A-Day has a tobacco product in it!
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Where it comes from
If you think of Texas and alleys (and you’re not from around here), the image that might come to mind is four caricatures drinking beer between a fence and a nicely paved road. This is not the case for most of Lubbock. Alleys, at least in my neighborhood, poorly maintained dirt and gravel eyesores with giant dumpsters every 100 feet. I would love it if having an alley meant that the facade...
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