Goodbye Big Bend
May 21st, 2007
This is the last Big Bend photo I’m going to post, for a while at least. For a place that I didn’t really like, Big Bend did actually produce quite a few photos that I think will be in my portfolio for a long time to come. I don’t think I’ll ever go back there, but I’m glad I did make the trip.
This is Niecy stretching outside the fake ruin at Three Dike Hill, the most productive location we found in the Big Bend area. You can see the fantastic distorted rock formations behind the shack. On in the background is the large hill that is actually Three Dike Hill. In the upper right you can clearly see two of the three volcanic “dikes” that give the hill its name. Niecy’s geologist husband, who visited this site as a college student many years ago on a geology field trip, explained to me how those dikes were formed, but it went right over my head…or maybe I was just too concentrated on seeing what I could do photographically with those rock formations and my two beautiful, talented models.
I’ll now start editing the shoots I did on the way to Big Bend, in the Ozarks and near Houston. So I’ll start posting those photos next. In a couple weeks I’ll be off to West Virginia to photograph in some of my favorite places. West Virginia has been a favorite destination for motorcycle trips for the past 25 years or so…I know a lot of great locations there and many times I’ve found myself wishing I had a figure model available to take full advantage of the locations. Soon I’ll be able to do that and you’ll see the results here, of course.
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