Photographs? Worth a thousand words. Each photograph one captures contains a set of sensory perceptions. Light, smell; emotional connection to the moment. Sound also plays an important part in photography.
A fitful night of sleep passed by the other night. So I made a list of my favorite sounds that bring back memories. Some melancholy, others that remind me of places I’ve been. Appropriate photos to illustrate, of course.
- The sound big rig tires makes at nightfall.
- The sound of a train blowing it’s horn after a late night, midwest thunderstorm.
- The echo of your own voice on the walls of a canyon.
- Heat lightning on the horizon. Even though you can’t hear a thunderclap, your mind makes up for it what it thinks it hear.
- The sound of wind through a forest just before sunrise and sunset.
- A sputtering pump jack and coyotes howling in the distance, at night.
- Rain on a tin roof.
- Fall leaves rustling during a late afternoon breeze.
- An horned owl hooting at false dawn.
- Constant thunder.
- The pitch and yaw of the A.M. band late at night in the desert.
- Vin Scully calling a Dodgers Game.
- The soundtrack to Fandango.
- The indescribable sound a tornado makes as it churns over the vast Texas Panhandle.
- A windstorm.
- Kids laughing.
- Big Blue under moonlight.
- The crackling of a campfire.
- A passenger jet flying high overhead while standing in the middle of nowhere.
- Marfa, Texas after a thunderstorm.
- Friday Night Football.
- Wind whistling through fence pickets of a Nebraska pioneer cemetery.
- The silence and wonder of shooting stars.
- A woodpecker knocking a hole through a tree after a winter storm.
- Bullfrogs in the slough of Clear Lake.
- Cicada bugs droning physcadellic on a humid afternoon in the south.
- A forest fire at night.
- The flap of a flag in the wind.
- Minor League baseball games.
- The soft humid sounds of the Padre Island National Seashore, near Corpus Christi.
- Hailstorms
- Wind in wheatfields.
-Kent Porter