Matthew P. Crouch Photography: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

West Texas - Kent & Sierra Blanca

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:37:08 GMT

]]>At a certain point on Interstate 10 headed west across Texas, all you are left with are small towns whose main purpose might seem to be running gas stations for those passing through, quickly. When you exit and start looking around, you start to see past the superficial views that 80 mph show. You see pride, loss, history, tragedy and occasionally hope. These photos were taken in Kent and Sierra Blanca, Texas. Kent is a ghost town. Even the gas station that existed off the interstate is closed, consigned to being a drop point for logistics companies. Sierra Blanca is still alive, supporting a sizeable Customs and Border Patrol station (feel free to ask Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg about it)

East Side Photowalk

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:37:08 GMT

]]>From the Scott Kelby 2011 Photowalk, Austin East Side

Neon

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:31:07 GMT

]]>I have always been fascinated with neon in photography - the colors, the unreality, the need for shape and form for its required purposes, and more so, the places where you find it.

My Egg Friday

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:31:07 GMT

]]>This series of photos developed as part of a challenge - how do you make an egg look interesting? I posted a couple for the challenge and plenty left over - these are sixteen of them. The eggs were a mix of "thousand year" preserved eggs, regular eggs, quail eggs, and tamago (fish eggs).

Road Trips

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:30:07 GMT

]]>I admit it - I love road trips. Miles of highways and back roads, scenes and vistas of places removed from what I see on a daily basis. Reminders and rememberances of life in "other places," where lives and buildings, history and culture, and just as important as anywhere else. Road trips always create memories, and never fail to expand my horizons.

Night

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:30:07 GMT

]]>When I first began exploring photography, I had already been in love with the night. Exploring the night with a camera was a given. Tripods and long exposures, searching for places where the light barely finds a hold - ambient, nooks, crannies, dark streets - always makes for a good night.

Street Photography

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:30:07 GMT

]]>Street photography is an intriguing animal. Day or night, its a fascinating and tricky subject. For me, its a way to keep practicing and training my eye, searching for the candid and unposed moments that people allow themselves to simply be themselves.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:24:07 GMT

]]>New Orleans is a magical place, for many people, who have expressed to me that they appreciate memories from this place.

The Crawfish Boil

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:22:07 GMT

]]>Come the early part of the year, the Gulf Coast gets feasting on crawfish. The season can run for several months and during that time, crawfish boils become part of the social fabric.

Variations

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:22:07 GMT

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El Paso & Juarez

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:16:07 GMT

]]>Once upon a time, I spent about eighteen months living in El Paso. Nowhere I had lived before had prepared me for life on the border, and I quickly learned that until you have spent time in the borderlands, you learn what misconseptions you brought with you. Even after I left, I realized I barely know it all. I had the pleasure of going to Juarez a few times when I lived along the border. People I know look at me with incredulity when I say that. What I saw there were people, just trying to survive and live in a place that had been badly affected by a combination of post-9/11 changes and horrifying cartel violence.

Abstractions

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:13:02 GMT

]]>Sometimes, as we pass through life, details get lost among other areas of focus, light passes by, dark closes in, shadows fade and return, and life becomes abstract. Occasionally, these were purposefully created.

Cemeteries Series

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:12:03 GMT

]]>These five cemeteries were photographed in the last two years, and each could not be more different. Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland – Taken at a 19th-century graveyard located near the historical boundary of Leith on a damp fall day. The amazing lushness of the trees and bushes, many of which had overgrown and overtaken the markers, easily drew the eye, to say nothing of the remarkable statuary and stonework throughout the cemetery. Concordia Cemetery, El Paso, Texas – Despite being located adjacent to a major interstate highway, standing in the middle of this cemetery was more quiet than I could have thought possible - the loudest noise was when a plane flew over. Containing some graves of various notable and notorious residents of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, including Texas gunman and lawyer John Wesley Harding, it also contains a Chinese graveyard with funerary and a memorial to Buffalo Soldiers. Merrick Cemetery, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana – These were taken about five and a half years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita emptied and relocated burial vaults from this cemetery. There was almost a palpable feel of sickness and insanity, staring at tombs that were emptied of their contents by forces of nature and which, years later, remain in their abandoned state. While a number of the coffins were found, they remained at the cemetery in the concrete vaults they were brought back in, which themselves remained outside of tombs, falling apart slowly. Lockheart Municipal Burial Park, Lockheart, Texas – Taken at twilight, the humidity of central Texas was still pervasive in October, while the noise of insects overwhelmed the nearby roads. These vaults and monuments all predate city ordinances which now prohibit above-ground markers. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 , New Orleans, Louisiana – Shot at while dodging groups of guided tours being led around. The cemetery itself is located next to a tourist office and only a block away from the French Quarter. One of three cemeteries with this name in New Orleans, it only spans a block, but contains thousands, including, it is rumored, voodoo queen Marie Laveau.

Abandoned Food

momentspause@yahoo.com (Matthew P. Crouch Photography) — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:09:05 GMT

]]>The Abandoned Food project came into being when I kept noticing pieces of food, many of which appeared perfectly good on the surface, simply abandoned. I began wondering about the waste of this and thinking of how often food in the United States goes to waste. The answer is staggering - reports vary but 31-40% of the available food in the U.S. gets wasted. None of these photos were staged. Whether on or near a bench, just along a path, or left by the trash, each of these photos reflects these items exactly as they were found. None of these were staged. All of them show a sad waste of food that could have made a difference to someone along the way. These were shot in two cities - Austin and El Paso.