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This week’s random image is of downtown Paducah, Texas and was taken back in 2017 during a West Texas and the southern Panhandle of Texas road trip. One of our stops was Paducah and I had to snap off this shot of one of the streets in downtown.
Downtown Paducah, Texas
Paducah, Texas is a small town of less than 2,000 people in Cottle County, Texas. Paducah became a town in 1891 when a post office was established. But the area has had settlers in the area around 1850s. By 1909 the Quanah, Acme and Pacific railroad came to town. By 1910 the town was incorporated with 1,350 residents.
According to the 1980 census, the population had grown to 2,216 residents. But over the next few decades the population started its decline. By 2010 the census reported the population dropped to 1,186 people.
I’ve been visited the area since 2015 and during that time I’ve seen the area slowly getting smaller and the downtown area slowly dyeing around the Cottle County Court House. Places such as the old Cottle Hotel and the Old Brick Jail are just a few of the buildings I have photographed. Downtown Paducah, Texas is one of my favorite places to photograph and at some point I’ll do an article with various buildings of the town.
About the Image
The images were shot by hand or by tripod at different times of the day. Most shots were done without the aid of a flash. I used a Sony A6000 with a a Sony SEL16F28 16mm f/2.8 Wide-Angle Lens. The images were then edited using Adobe Lightroom to crop, straighten and clean up the images. I used Google NIK Collection (Now DXO NIK Collection) and Topaz Labs Clarity to help give some of the images that bit of extra details) to add detail, add contrast, and sharpen/remove noise. As always my images are for sale with or without the watermark in digital and prints. Please contact me via the contact page for more information.
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