2025 07 02

Dollar General. Dixon, Illinois. June, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

Some great nuggets in this talk with Tim Carpenter and Jason Lee. Photography is showing how you make sense of the world. Heidegger said: it’s not what we know about the world that’s really ourselves, it’s our habits and our inclinations, and the way we move through it; that’s who we really are.

When I pulled into the parking lot (reluctantly, as I loathe Dollar General) to buy some cups, this scene got me incredibly excited. I snapped a few frames out my window with the trusty Ricoh, and here we are, discussing it on the internet a week later.

Will it work as well in b/w? Likely not. Luckily I’m a color junkie.

-Clayton

2025 06 22

Open. Be Back Tuesday. Dixon, Illinois. May, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

It’s wild how quickly time moves on once you de-prioritize something from your life.

-Clayton

2025 05 14

Date right on the photo? What a concept! Roadside trees, somewhere outside of Dixion, Illinois. May, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

Soon, I will start to post more “real” photos from my Illinois Wandering trips. Until I find the time to edit said images, I figured I would stay on the Roadside Tree theme and post a phone image. The immediacy of the iPhone is hard to defeat, I will admit. I leaned on the phone for this purpose for far too long and am still struggling to fight the urge. Apps like Lapse make it even more fun and convenient.

Side note: I love this time of year, when the trees are leafing out, yet not so full that you can’t see through them.

-Clayton