Detours

Sometimes a problem or even just an inconvenience is God's way of telling you to try out a different route to get to something better. While that's a bit of a theme for me lately, this past Sunday it was just plain literal. I was on my way back from one of Skye Hardwick's Soulographer photography workshops in Austin (more on that in a later post) thinking about the awesome time I had, the cool stuff I learned, and the fantastic people I met when my post-workshop reminiscing party came to a screeching halt on I-35 near Hillsboro, TX. 'Perfect' I thought to myself (probably not the actual word I was thinking). First I thought it would be no biggie... it's Sunday afternoon so surely this was only a temporary slow-down caused by a minor fender bender. Tick. Tock. Ugh, what's the hold up? Tick. Tock. What a beating... my 3 hour drive is now 30 minutes behind schedule with no relief in site, and no obligatory road trip cheetohs in the car to distract me. Wait a minute... I've got an iPhone... and it's got Google Maps (and it's just cool in general which helps a little here). I tell it to locate where I'm at on the map, and see that if I get off I-35 I can wind through some back roads and skip all this mess and get back on the highway a few miles up ahead. Genius I am for being so resourceful and for buying my rock star iPhone. Yay, Apple.

Great idea... except the side roads were littered with detours and closings because of work being done on them. Stupid, over-priced iPhone didn't point that part out. Next thing I know I'm on some rinky-dink back road to no where when God turned my pile of lemons into a big ol' bucket of lemonade.

I love old, vintage cars no matter what kinda shape they're in. They're one of the things - if not the thing - I love to photograph most when it's just me and my camera out playing around. They just have so much character and history about them... classic Americana. I was actually just thinking about them a little earlier in the drive hoping I would see some close to the highway on the way home, but had pretty much given up on it. But because of this little traffic snafu that I was annoyed about, I took another route that turned into something cooler. Sometimes we don't alway get to travel the path we thought we would, but God always knows a better way.

Here's just a little taste of my lemonade He poured me on my trip home.




















And here's a couple from a truck I saw on the way down to Austin

A Need for Nostalgia

It's been a while since I've posted any "Image(s) of the Week" entries.

"A while?? Try a month!" Hey, pipe down, peanut gallery... Things have been very busy lately [good thing] which also means I've not had a chance to go out and do as much 'playing' with the camera [bad thing].

Anyway, I'm not ready to call these "Images of the Week" either as it may set expectations that I would actually follow through and post another installment next week. Besides, it feels incredibly freeing at this point to simply remove even one item from my relentless, never-ending to do list.


I love old, worn out, vintage cars. There's just something very nostalgic and cool about them, not too mention they make great subjects for art pieces for the walls. This beauty [click on images for larger views] is an old rail yard utility truck located at the Rail Road Museum down in Fair Park near downtown Dallas.

Old trains are another favorite of mine, but for some reason I didn't take many images of trains at the train museum. How does that happen?