Category:Travel
I thought this was just a faded advertisement for the Star Biscuit Co. when I photographed it. I thought it was a faded sign of the times, an indication of the decline of small towns in rural America. But I was fooled. The sign was a prop, a backdrop for a scene in the 1998 movie, Hope Floats. Star Biscuit Co., Leading Brand Of The World, a brand I’d never heard of anywhere in the world which had me reaching […]
The Watcher sees all from his perch above the river, life in all its forms streaming by outside his window. It was hot in Paris when I took this photo. I was visiting and my hotel room had air conditioning. When I lived there, like this man, I had to open the windows to cool my apartment in the summer. And if there was no breeze, well you were S.O.L. But my apartment had been brand new. I was the […]
There were eight in our group – waiting for the sunrise at the Stovepipe Wells Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. The aim had been to capture a starburst as the sun peeked over the Funeral Mountains of the Amargosa Range. The dunes are at their firmest at dawn and the breeze over night has erased most of the footprints from the day before. Get there first and you have pristine dunes to capture. Get there second and there […]
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 […]
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 […]
So here’s a shot of us approaching Tagrifet, looking through a window in the same Twin Otter featured in yesterday’s post. Can’t say I really know much about Tagrifet other than it was at one time occupied by the Italians when they ruled this part of Libya before WWII. The fort is curious to me because of it’s triangular shape. Sitting at one end of a low mesa, other photos I’ll post in the future show the barbed wire defenses […]