I am trying to decide what is the best for me and what is the worst.  But I can't tell and all I seem to do is drown the seconds as I hope for the emptiness to disappear.  

Onward

Can no longer pretend to know what I am doing.  Just blindly wandering occassionally stumbling upon a portrait of heaven on these ugly asphalt streets.  A lovely play of the form and color a perfect statement of my ugly mood.  But it means nothing.

Tutwiler.

On a road that leads to Nowhere

thought.

I think that documentary happens because a photographer wants it to happen.  A photographer decides something should be documented, and he or she puts in the intellectual, as well as artistic effort.  

 -Gifford Hampshire

Delta Randoms

As night becomes forever and the tears no longer heal the pain.  Highway lights guide me to a place to hard to call home. 

The River

I wonder if people knew how easy it would be to break my fragile skin.  I wonder if they'd be surprised to find nothing left. 

Marvin Freeman

Church

Curvy Road Ahead

I thought I chose this path but it chose me.  Pushing me over the edge.  Resisting too hard found the right way as I let myself go.  

New

Some well needed updates to this blog will be happening shortly.  But for now here's a photo from a shoot i did with a friend.  

Things are working out without a plan.  I keep following my heart things just come together.  I love to photography the daily life, the people I love.  

Returning!!!

So I sort of decided to bring this blog back and try different things than on my other blog.  So here we go.  Some lost words mixed with photos and mindless ramblings.  

Still trying to remain calm in the eye of my personal storm.  15 years of bad weather inside of me.  Personal chaos and termoil, the process has failed. 

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."  -Diane Arbus

FIN...

It's been too long since i updated this and it's not fair... I update my other blog more often... from now on, please check out here  (click on words for the blog and pictures to obviously see pictures i've taken...)    

sorry for the inconvenience...

-Colin

RL Boyce

This is RL Boyce.  He plays the Hill Country Style of Blues.  He was quite the entertainer.  He drank a fair amount on the ride over so by the time he started playing, he was already slurring words.  He made for quite the entertainer the whole night.  

RL told me he was going to kill me if I took another pic of him, then he would wink at me. 

Red thinks that he is calming down so no wis a good time to give RL some moonshine

At some point some 20 year old young white girl came in.  RL called her up "Say you look pretty why don't you come up here a second." So she walked up and took his hand.  RL said, "Why don't you turn around and let me see you."  She turned around and RL shook his head and  said, "Well you ain't that cute no mo'."  I don't understand this as she was wearing a loose flowing dress and not something tight where you could see her curves or lack of curves.  I'm not sure what he was looking for anyways.  Her boyfriend didn't really know how to react to that comment and nor did she.  I think it went way over her blonde head.  

Pick Up Sticks

I threw stale pasta in my yard.  Some landed sticking up and it reminded me of Pick Up Sticks.  Over night it rained and the past got all loosey.  I woke up the next morning and saw two dogs eating the past out in my yard.  When I got my camera and went outside the dogs got scared.  

Flower

This is something from my garden.  I don't know what it is though. 

Joe

This is Joe.  He enjoys R&B and Blues.  He likes to sit on his porch and listen to the Blues. 

Dublin, MS

I started working on a house down in Dublin, MS for Bill T.  It is in a bit of need for some repairs.  What do you think??

Orange

This woman made the whole festival for me.  Her outfit is amazing!!

Jake Leg Stompers

The Jake Leg Stompers play out on the street in front of Cathead.  They do a wonderful pre-war style of music.  (That's pre WW I).

Riverman

John Ruskey runs his own canoe company and takes people out on the MS River.  It's a really great time and well worth the money.  He carves his own canoes and is really nice.  He has taken on a few apprentices' kids from the neighborhood.  

This is Jimmy "Duck" Holmes.  He plays the blues that came out the Benetobia area.  He's good.  

Updated.

I've been a little busy lately.  I decided to stick around Clarksdale and am currently working construction for the Shack Up Inn peoples.  They just had a shack delivered today.  That'll be fun to cause havoc in there.  My parents came down for the Sunflower Festival about a week and half ago.  Fun stuff.  I'll start off with this one of Muzz.  He came in the night from Arizona.  I'm going to start doing a regular portrait of interesting individuals I find in the community.  

Doo Drop Inn

Holmes Family working on their House!