a world away

Main Street & Stapley, Central Mesa

taken 10/15/2009

time for a visit

Mesa & Brown Rd, Central Mesa

taken 10/15/2009

convenient corner

Gilbert & Broadway Rd, Central Mesa

There is one thing about the Valley, we have no shortage of convenience stores. There seems to be one on every corner, luring people in for ice cold drinks, candy, six packs, cigarettes and gas too. Seems there's always something you can get, right down the street.

taken 10/14/09

sneaking around again

Stapley and 8th Ave, Mesa, AZ

taken 10/15/2009

western sky

Main Street & Dobson, Downtown Mesa

taken 5/5/2007

decades

Downtown Phoenix, near 7th St & Thomas, alley view

Remember when Phoenix was the ideal Southwestern city? We didn't have many fancy restaurants back then, but we had lots of beautiful desert. And maybe this wasn't the place to spend a lot of time; more of a fly in, drive out, but it was very affordable. We didn't have the big store names as much back then. But we did have lots of entrepenuers that would sell you almost anything, for not very much, cause the rent was so cheap.

Now we have the Metrorail, big sports arenas and $10 martini's. We have high end people living in low end parts of town, securely protected by iron gates and big dogs. What little character there was here seems too diluted to notice anymore.

I guess, some people have changed the city, but the city hasn't changed some people.

taken 08/23/2005

a quiet response

Downtown Phoenix, alley near 12th Street and Palm Lane

There's are somethings I don't really talk about, usually meaningful moments in my life. I don't talk about them because I don't want to trivalize them with verbage. So I take pictures and I let the photos express my feelings.

I know they're not pretty pictures, or places you'd even want to spend time. I guess I choose them for their raw, uncovered, exposed nature; no hidden veneer here. To me, that's truth; the inside, the under parts, stripped of any facade.

taken 09/22/2005