texashistory

Jeremy Green “Texas Fight Club” 9/23/21

In this country named Texas the Alamo is a shrine in the truest sense of the word. Men must remove their hats upon entering. Big-hatted Texas Rangers are politely and quietly omnipresent outside. David Crockett, James Bowie, William B Travis, and almost everyone else who was there one day in 1836 fought and died there for the sake of Texas Independence. That is a lasting and prevalent identity. Last weekend my wife and I stayed at a historic hotel in San Antonio about a couple hundred yards from the Alamo. I happened to walk over there one evening, and things looked good…on second thought, things looked really kind of perfect. I wasn’t planning it, but I had my Nikon with me, so I made this shot. After digitally cleaning it up by removing bike racks, trash cans, knee-high posts & chains, etc., and after going back the next day to shoot a better fluttering flag, I had a fine picture of the Alamo. This is not my usual cup of coffee, but the circumstances compelled the creation.