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Brick Walk: Gruen Texas

Brick Walk

Brick Walk shows a portion of the vintage decorative walkways in the town of Gruen, Texas. The image shows late afternoon sunlight washing over the bricks in strong side lighting. The bricks are laid in a pattern of concentric arcs that lead the eye into the center and out the upper right side of the image.

As we walked around the shops in the town center, I looked for something out of the ordinary to photograph —and glanced down to see this textured pattern. I waited to make the exposure as late in the day as possible to get the lowest angle sunlight. A few minutes later this stretch of walk was in flat shadow.

Brick Walk<’b> was created on Kodak T-Max 100 sheet film in a 4x5 inch Zone VI camera mounted with a 90mm/f-8 Nikkor SW lens. Exposure is unrecorded. The negative has been digitally scanned and is presented here as an archival ink jet print.

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