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I miss having access to the Dallas College Richland Campus Photography Studio, if I could go back in time I would live in that space!

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Downtown Gladewater, April 29th, 2022

Gladewater Texas

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Everything I know about poetry pretty much comes from Redd Foxx and Andrew Dice Clay, which isn’t to say I can’t appreciate poetry… I’m just not inclined to be able to do more than listen and know what I like. Regardless! I do like Brendon, I’ve known him for quite some time, longer than anyone else I’ve known in Texas, and I asked him if he minded if I came to take photographs of the poetry reading at Books & Barrels (website), which I did! I hadn’t really shot anything with an actual camera since the freeze, so it was super nice to actually get back into it, even if it felt super awkward at first!

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As much as I enjoyed shooting last night and editing photos until late in the evening, I was exhausted today but still wanted to run amok in historic Longview and see some of the arts! I ended up mainly chatting up artists, briefly reuniting with friends, oogling other photographers work, and looking down back alleys and cobblestone side streets for cool places to shoot portraits in the future.

I did have a brief moment where there was entirely too many people and I just ended up petting doggos and looking for cool bugs to photograph. No bugs, but found some weird bulbous plant just dingling about right outside the main square.

ArtWalk Longview links: Website, Facebook, Instagram

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Started off and on sprinkling, was hoping to take a lot more photos but we mainly just made the circuit and talked with just a couple of people working stands (Easley Haus, Apothecary & Oddities gave The Child a free soap sample), might make the rounds again tomorrow!

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Took The Child to the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, and she spent the entire time being a shutterbug with my backup camera and seemed to have a blast just taking photos of everything. She repeatedly asked what rules to photography there are, and did not (not one bit) like my answer of “none”.

Watching her take photos and helping her with the occasional thing was the highlight of ArtWalk April for me. I did really enjoy seeing Lakey being highlighted (Lakey’s boards and art were prominent in the promotion of this event, I had one moment in Ollie’s Skate Shop where I mentioned him by name and two people in the back raised their drinks and shouted “LAKEY!”, and on several occasions people were talking about how the sidewalk was too pretty to walk on), and the handful of artists I talked with were absolutely thrilled to talk about their process and work!

All that said, I am absolutely looking forward to the next ArtWalk Longview event, hopefully the mood will be lighter and the technical SNAFU’s wont dampen anything.

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Before we moved to Dallas we volunteered at the Longview Animal Control and Adoption Center to socialize the dogs by walking them and giving the animals regular human interaction, we also fostered kittens. We’ve adopted two of our menagerie from them and absolutely adore the people who work and volunteer there.

For the past few years everything has been insanely hectic for everyone, so it was great to see so many people, vendors, sponsors and local companies turn out to support them!

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