Smithville, TX

Recently, my wife and our two dogs made our annual pilgrimage to a small town in Texas for a long weekend.  Smithville, located between Austin and La Grange, was our destination this year.  We spent a couple of relaxing days at a rental house by the Colorado River.  It was a good get away from our daily grind.  We got hungry at one point and made our way into town to get a bite to eat and to check out Main Street. It was just what is expected of a small Texas town.  Plenty of interesting small brick buildings, many with faded painted signs on the side.   I liked this place, but it seems that this part of the town has seen better days.  Other than a handful of antique stores, most of the rest of the buildings were for rent or for sale. As always, comments are appreciated

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Random Images

A few more images from a recent trip. You can see more of my work on my website:  www.johnmillerphoto.com

Thanks for taking a look and as always, comments are much appreciated.

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Doors Again

Apparently I'm a sucker for doors.  After 20 something years of photography, I'm finally figuring that out.  I don't go out specifically looking to take pictures of them, but it seems that I almost always come back with a few pictures of them. Here's a few from last weekend.  

Door #2, aka "untitled door #2"

Generally, I don't title my photographs.  I guess the idea of having to be creative with the naming process has never really appealed or come naturally to me.  I recently had a small showing of work in a coffee shop here in Galveston, and on the inventory sheet they asked me to fill out prior to the show, there was a space for the title of each piece of work.   Could I just put "untitled" for every image?  Being nervous about that and not wanting to rock the boat,  I quickly came up with a bunch of uninspired names for the work.  All of the names ended up being very literal, like "Chair Shadow"  and "Banana Leaf".  I should have just put "untitiled" for each, it would have been less embarrassing.  Should I feel compelled to put a title to each image? I think the real reason is that I'm not clever enough to come up with witty or meaningful titles.  Take the image below for example.  I have several images of this door.  Should I  start naming them door #1, then door #2, then door #3?  My images are starting to sound like a game show. I'm not really looking for an answer here, I guess I'm looking for a reason to title a picture of a door.

I should stop typing,  Here's "Door #2".  No, I'll call it  "untitled door #2".