My name is Dave Koen and I am a photographer and musician residing in Denton, Texas.

I enjoy getting emails and questions.  You can also find me on facebook, flickr and twitter.

All photos and posts are my own creations unless otherwise noted.

When I am not posting here I am part time contributor on Tuneage.

If you like what you see, feel free to recommend my blog to the Tumblr Directory.

 

The Vault of the Cleveland Trust bankCleveland, Ohio

The Vault of the Cleveland Trust bank
Cleveland, Ohio

Charting our progress…Somewhere on Route 66 in Illinois

Charting our progress…
Somewhere on Route 66 in Illinois

I need your help!

You know that I really don’t ask for much.  I usually just take pictures and put them up on Tumblr but this time I need your help.  See, I entered this photo contest for the local newspaper not realizing that the top ten photos would be chosen by popular vote.  I am currently losing to a blurry picture of a girl with her face all scrunched up and a date stamp in the corner…

If you’d like to help here is what you have to do….

1. Register for an account.  They haven’t sent me any spam. For that matter, they haven’t even sent me an email accept to say that I registered.  

2. Go to the page with my photo on it and vote.  

3. That is it really… I guess if you want to, you could go to my photo store and pick up a print but that really isn’t necessary.  

You might be asking yourself, “What do I get out of all of this?”.  Well, for the next couple of days I will go through my archives and post some of my favorite old pictures that haven’t seen the light of day in awhile.  Deal? Deal.

I grew up in Denton - lived there for 18 years - so your photographs are equal parts familiar and mystical. You make me see things I've been looking at for years in a whole new light. So, thank you for that.

I’m really glad that you enjoy my photos.  When I moved here (exactly a year ago this week) I didn’t have much else to do other than explore and take pictures.  It is how I learned my way around town and how I formed some of my earliest friendships here.   Denton has been pretty good to me so far.