Monthly:January 2016
I titled this image ‘Bishop Flare’ because it obviously shows flare and it was taken near the town of Bishop in California. Taken relatively early on a fall morning in 1995, I had originally set out to compose something around the center pivot irrigation system but whatever I tried to do, at that time of the day I couldn’t escape the flare. So, I decided to make the flare a feature of the image. Today, I’d set out a tripod […]
The racetrack road runs south from Ubehebe Crater to the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park. It’s a rough, washboarded road and can be quite an uncomfortable trip. The rock pieces are jagged and sharp and there’s not enough room to pass someone coming in the other direction. That’s how we got our flat – we punctured the sidewall while pulling over to let someone pass. We were all surprised to see someone in a regular sedan driving along […]
Back in the fall of 1995 I spent an afternoon wandering around San Francisco. Today, I’d call that photo walking. Back then, I was wandering with a camera. One of the images I took was of this building, the St. Elizabeth. I was taken with the symmetry of it, took one frame and moved on. Now, trying to place the image, I Googled various combinations and came up with nothing. So, I went back to my film strip, started with […]
How Teakettle Junction got it’s name has been lost to history but, by virtue of the name, it’s almost obligatory to bring your own kettle, write your name on it and hang it on the sign. Sooner or later the ‘locals’ will come by and remove them and the cycle starts over again. Teakettle Junction itself is about 21 miles south of Ubehebe Crater on the way to the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park. When I was there […]
This photo of a Tunisian Desert Sunset was taken in Tunisia – quel surprise! I only spent a couple of months in the Tunisian desert but I remember it was in the winter. It was cold at night and we were billeted in single-walled canvas tents rather than the heated trailers we used in Libya. I recall we had three-bar electric heaters to try and take the edge off the cold but you could only run two bars at most […]
Today’s photo, Phuket Sunset moves away from the recent desert theme to an ocean one but stays with the lack of green in the image. Taken in the early 90s, Phuket was transitioning away from the back-packer’s paradise of the 70s and early 80’s to the resort style place it is today. This photo was taken from Patong Beach. The main roads were in place by then but there were no mega resorts, the concrete for the earliest of those […]
