Archives for May, 2007
Shack
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
At the base of those wild rock formations were a couple small ruined shacks. When we first found them we thought they were “ghost town” ruins like those we had seen in Terlingua and at the abandoned mercury mine we’d visited before. They looked pretty much the same from the outside. But when we got […]
Rock curves
Monday, May 7th, 2007
The shapes in the rocks at Two Dike Hill were just amazing. Of course I had to fight the sun to get a photo. In this case I was fighting flare and almost succeeded in eliminating it. If you look critically you can see some flare effects on the left side of the photo, but […]
The Fake Church
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Here are both Rose and Niecy at the “church” on the old movie set in the Big Bend area. That Big Bend sun was cooking the front of the church, as it cooked everything in that country. But I think I managed to pull out some of the color and texture of the building and […]
"Church" Window
Friday, May 4th, 2007
Here’s a window at the “church” on the movie set in the Big Bend area. I spent yesterday doing my first real motorcycle ride of the year. My best friend, Ken, and I made a loop around some of the more interesting parts of Ohio on back roads. One of the roads we rode was […]
Back to Big Bend
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Ok…enough with the pinhole photos. Time to get away from the soft grainy pinhole photos and back to the scorching sun of Big Bend. Here’s Rose in the partial shade of a porch awning woven from cactus branches. I still have a lot more Big Bend photos to go through, then I’ll be editing the […]
