It's been about twenty years since I've been through that area. My
wife's dad was born and raised in the area around Joplin, and we took
him back there a few times. One of those times was right about the time
of the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and I was
quizzed by the FBI because the name "Nichols" on a motel register in
Joplin raised a red flag with them.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 8/22/2016 1:40 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
Thanks for the update. Since you have been quiet lately, I figured you were
upping the shutter count on the 6D.
It's been a combination of a couple of things. We've been tied up
getting our girls off to college. But while away, I did slam many
hundreds of photos through the memory cards. I've processed and
uploaded a couple hundred stock images this past week.
I discovered an old abandoned service station in Springfield, MO, that
was just screaming at me, so I stopped and got some pictures of it. It
was a "watch your step, and watch your back" situation. I thought it
was my imagination, but I thought I saw something move in the shadows.
After a couple minutes, I finally got up close to the building and
noticed the restroom door ajar. I took a peek in and there was drug
paraphernalia everywhere and evidence of consumption in progress.
Realizing that I had interrupted something, I figured it better to not
go around to the back of the building and I moseyed back to the car,
which Karen had locked herself into while I was venturing around with
the camera. She let it be known that this and the previous abandoned
business establishment that I had photographed a couple minutes
earlier were beyond her comfort zone. WAY beyond her comfort zone.
They were locations I would NOT go back to at night.
After discovering the elicit activity, I QUICKLY got the rest of the
pictures I needed as I felt that a return to get more was highly
unlikely.
Funny thing is that while I was photographing the old service station,
a friend of ours (another Iowa minister dropping off his kid to
college too) drove past and thought that it would make an interesting
picture and noticed somebody photographing it--not realizing it was
me. As we sat down for dinner, we were talking about what we did that
afternoon and I showed him the pictures. He said that it was not a
place HE would have gotten out of the car for. Probably sage advice.
I'll upload those pictures for stock, tonight.
AG Schnozz
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