Sorry for the long delay – i’m just getting through a (relative) truck-load of film from the past few weekends. At the end of march we ventured up north to Eureka, CA (and Arcata, Crescent City and various points in between). After getting off of the highway to go check out an Indian Casino (it’s a small warehouse, once inside…
read moreOne of my favorite places in the Bay Area is the Marin Headlands. Just a couple of miles North of San Francisco you’re immediately taken to a large relatively undeveloped place. There are some roads, small buildings and hiking trails (along with a pseudo-undercover missle base and old WWII cannon forts, but that’s all for another time). At what’s probably…
read moreAt the Bixby Bridge – about 1/4 mile north from where we stopped and were overtaken by fog – everything was clear. I took the opportunity to climb down the ridge a little bit and explore the hillside. Aside from being covered in tourist trash (cigarette boxes and dorrito bags) it’s pretty cool. I think with a little more time…
read moreAnother in a series of captures from the California coast 2 weekends ago. If i remember correctly we’d stopped an hour or two before in SLO at at a fantastic barbecue place we stumbled upon right down the road from the house of junk. Returning to San Francisco from the coast it’s such a foreign place, and to make things…
read moreI’m not done with my Joshua Tree stuff yet, i just had to change subjects for a day or so so i can catch up with my scanning. On the way back up the coast on Sunday we stopped for a few minutes at an overlook to Bixby Bridge right as the sun was setting and the fog was blowing…
read moreEverything is so barren, but at the same time it’s hard to find a place without more joshua trees in the background. I didn’t see too many of them but there are these small chipmunk/squirrel creatures running around in the desert. (I just looked them up and the internet claims that they’re “California Chipmunks”) Everywhere i walked were holes that…
read moreAt one end of Joshua Tree the landscape is covered by Joshua Trees. The other end has hardly any Joshua Trees at all and cactus and other desert brush cover the endless expanse of sand. There wasn’t much rain this year so the blossoms weren’t as prevalent as they have been in years past. I stumbled upon an area that…
read moreI managed to make a visit to Joshua Tree National Park this past week. The sun was bright and the atmosphere thin which is what i’m going to blame the slight overexposure on. (that or the dehydration and threat of leaping scorpions). I’ve got a bunch of stuff from the past week coming up – Joshua Tree, Los Angeles and…
read moreThat ferry in the foreground is normally one of the largest ships in the bay (aside from the freighters that come and go all day long). The Queen Mary 2 makes it look like a toy.
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