In June we photographed Carson Valley Days and the Minden Ranch Rodeo then got a bunch of tractors for our tractor calendars. In July we photographed Amador County Fair.
August we begin our late summer travels starting at the Blue Eagle Ranch in eastern Nye County and then to Middle America and return.
We traveled across Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas and ran out of time when we got to Missouri and Iowa. We came back through Nebraska and dipped into South Dakota before beating winter in Wyoming and eventually home. The link to the new photos is here.
Fall colors in the Sierra were not too bad, but the best colors of all were right here in the vineyards of Amador County. It was almost visual overload!
My professional society, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) picked up my artical on Digital Photo Submission and ran it in the end of the year issue of the nationally published "The Bullitin". There are plans for more digital-oriented writing...
In December we purchased a Epson 7600 Ultrachrome printer and are now offering high quality printing. Here's a link to our print sales page.
Shooting the West XVIII will be happening again March 10-12 2006 in Winnemucca and we will be there again.
In the mean time, it's time for web updates and catching up on our film editing.
We are back from two trips and nearly a month on the road.
First to Shooting the West in Winnemucca! From March and to Death Valley and Joshua Tree for the bloom. Then down the Diablo Range in California, southern Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Texas.
Wow! The flowers were great and we are now editing the digital files and film. Eventually, when things calm down, we'll have new stuff on line. Stay tuned...
Spring in the Sierra Foothills was also quite nice. You'll see some of the photos in recently uploaded galleries from early June.
A few new late winter photos from the fog-free foothills and a few of the start of the poppies near our studio in Jackson.
2005 wildflowers in California will probably be a repeat of the 2003 bloom and then some. Flowers in Anza-Borrego Desert SP started blooming in December and when we were there in March between storms, couldn't be beat! We also got great pix at the North Algodones Sand Dunes, Salvation Mountain, the fruit trees in bloom on the way home in the San Joaquin Valley. All I can say is WOW!
We're from Alaska and Yukon with the highlight of taking our Casita travel trailer on a cruise with us on the Blue Canoe–Alaska's Marine Highway System, the state-run ferry.
We drove up US 97 through central Oregon and Washington to the British Columbia border, catching Canada 1 at Hope and up the Frasier River to Cache Creek then up Canada 97 to Prince George via Barkersville, then across the Yellowhead Highway 16 to Prince Rupert to board the ferry.
We road the ferry to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, Juneau, then off at Haines where we took the Fast Ferry to Skagway then drove to White Horse. From there, we detoured to Carcross then went to the Sign Forest of Watson Lake. We saw the Aurora Borealis in Muncho and dropped down to Dawson Creek. We cut over to Edmonton then headed over the Rockies to Banff and Lake Louise.
Crossing the boarder, we photographed the Palouse wheat fields of Washington, before picking up US 395 and getting home 40 days after our start.
Since then, it was a fast fall color trip to the Sierra Nevada, photographing the Power fire, a 17,000 acre forest fire and lots of editing of our photos!
We hardly had time to take a break this summer. June and early July we traveled to Minden for the Ranch Rodeo then across Nevada with wonderful thunderstorms to photograph. We took in Pioche, and the ET Highway before traveling east through the Escalante Desert of Utah. From there it was over the Wasatch to Boulder and Boulder Mountain. We went through the center of Capitol Reef and to Factory Butte.
We photographed the rock art at Sego Canyon then off to Colorado and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. From there it was through central Colorado via US 50 catching barns and outhouses and the ghost towns of St. Elmo and Como. We caught up to Al Weber at the Victor School and had a great time at the old mining camp before photographing the Pikes Peak cog railroad just before the big thunderstorm.
We drove east through the storm to the Great Plains and got as far as western Kansas before turning west. Got lots of good storm and lightening photos as we traveled back west on US 50 and then down to Trinidad. From there we climbed back into the Rockies and shot the San Luis Valley, Wolf Creek Pass and the chased the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge over to Silverton for the day.
From Silverton we went over the passes to Ouray, Placerville, Redmond and along the San Miguel River though the Umcompagre Range to Grand Junction When we got to the top of the Sinbad in central Utah, we met up with John Bull who was riding through 50 states on his bicycle for his 50th birthday. He was down to finishing Utah, going across Nevada to California then through Oregon to Washington then flying to Hawaii for his final state.
We dug trilobites in the House Range of western Utah and took a soak at Spencer's Hot Springs in Nevada on our final night. Carolyn got a pix of us soaking with the Casita which just won the grand prize in the Nevada Commission on Tourism's Koolist RV Moment in Nevada. This photo will be showcased in an upcoming RV promotion booklet.
America 24/7
I was very pleased to be one of the dozen and a half photographers selected to cover Nevada for the America 24/7 project in May. Carolyn shot for the them also. America 24/7 was the first of its kind to document the USA in one week using bleeding-edge digital technology and showing the U.S. from sea to sea. More than one million photos were created using only digital tools. We jumped in with both feet and are now fully digital from photo capture through delivery! The first of 53 books, the USA edition is available now and one book for each state is available now. I have two small selections of photos: California and Nevada.
We met many interesting people in Mineral County and shot hundreds of photos. We both are now very comfortable with the new technology and digital work flow.
While I photographed Nevada, Carolyn photographed her home town in Tustin and Orange County before finishing up shooting her friends in Amador County. Here is a selection of Carolyn's California.
General
We always find new outhouses 1, 2; funny signs; shot-up highway signs; tractors; semi trucks; jackasses; mailboxes; rural roadways; interesting houses and buildings; barns; cats; photos of interesting people; gardens and flowers; railroads and stations; extensive identified American windmills; lots of new panorama photos
California
Sequoia-Kings Canyon in late spring, Mojave Desert in summer, parts of old Route 66, Gorman and Antelope Valley with spectacular wildflower displays, the Carizzo Plains National Monument, Death Valley, Kingston Mountains, Salinas Valley, Mission San Antonio and San Miguel, Tulare Antique tractor show, McConnell windmill collection, Cedarville, Bridgeport Independence Day, arborglyphs, High Sierra fall colors, small ranch cattle branding, and many others
Genoa, Minden and Carson Valley in fall and summer, Jackson Mountains and northern Nevada, Central Nevada in winter, Mineral County (digital for America 24/7), Ely, Black Rock Desert, northern Washoe County, Carson Valley Days, Main Street Car show, Minden, Topaz Lake, Minden Ranch Rodeo, Minden Antique Tractor Show
Arizona
Along Route 66 and US 180 (Navajo Reservation), Hubbell Trading Post, Winslow, Wupatki National Monument, Oatman Jackasses, Cañon de Chelly National Monument
New Mexico
Gallup, Grants, El Morro National Monument, Salinas National Monument, Great Plains of eastern New Mexico, Clovis, Dry Cimarron, Ft. Union National Monument, Sapello area and rural churches
Texas
Amarillo area, Spearman windmill collection, grain elevators
Oklahoma
Panhandle area and the Shattuck windmill collection, grain elevators
Kansas - Nebraska - Iowa - Missouri
Colorado - Utah - Wyoming - South Dakota
Farming, barns, grain elevators, tractors, churches, school houses, weather, lightning, the land, rural landscapes, the mountains, Great Plains, forests, wildlife and Badlands.
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