The Photographer

Stan had mentioned that when we went through Marathon, Texas, we should stop at a gallery and take a look at the photographs of this photographer.  His name is James and he has lived and worked in Marathon and the Big Bend Area for something like 30 years.  His photographs are just astounding, and he has a way of doing portraits of people that are warm and loving, and sometimes, unexpected and wonderful.  So we stopped, and because of incredible luck - it was Texas spring break - he was in the gallery.  He was warm and welcoming and we had a wonderful conversation.  He did say that generally he doesn't like to talk to photographers - we had mentioned we both were long-time professionals.  But most photographers want to talk about cameras and lenses and other technical stuff.  Visiting with James really made our day!

This is his gallery.  One of his books is called "Big Bend" and we saw it on display in a couple of bookstores, but I am not sure you could easily find it here in the east.  But seeing his large original prints was really a treat.