Late August! Where has the summer gone? I spent 3 weeks driving around the country with an awesome friend. We saw so many different landscapes. Being in a different new environment almost every day and having the freedom to go photograph as much as I wanted...well, it was just spectacular. Stefanie would look through my pictures and we would joke that it was the tour of old American hotel signs, although I'd argue its any old sign, especially if neon is involved.
These two shots are from around Marfa, TX. The southwest is chock full of things I like to photograph, human places that the desert has reclaimed. Sunfaded, windblown, deserted (ha!). Such a fascinatingly inhospitable place with failure dotting the landscape. Buildings and vehicles abandoned, hard to tell if it was before or after their usefulness was called into question. We rode into Marfa as the sky exploded with thunder, lightning and rain. I guess this is more common than i expected, and inches of water piled up in the low-lying areas of our campground. It was probably for the best that we didn't get there even thirty minutes sooner, or our tent may have ended up underwater. Storms like this explain why the landscape was so much more lush than I anticipated, a bright, young green that stuck around until we reached some higher and dryer elevations. I haven't spent much time in the desert, none until an unnecessary trip to Las Vegas sent me out and about in a convertible and I fell in love with the alien landscape. I think about moving to one of these places, but I worry about how sustainable it is to be a human who enjoys regular showers living in a land where the water source is someone else's diminishing abundance. For now, I'll try to visit and shower in the rain whenever possible.
Late August! Where has the summer gone? I spent 3 weeks driving around the country with an awesome friend. We saw so many different landscapes. Being in a different new environment almost every day and having the freedom to go photograph as much as I wanted...well, it was just spectacular. Stefanie would look through my pictures and we would joke that it was the tour of old American hotel signs, although I'd argue its any old sign, especially if neon is involved. 
These two shots are from around Marfa, TX. The southwest is chock full of things I like to photograph, human places that the desert has reclaimed. Sunfaded, windblown, deserted (ha!). Such a fascinatingly inhospitable place with failure dotting the landscape. Buildings and vehicles abandoned, hard to tell if it was before or after their usefulness was called into question. We rode into Marfa as the sky exploded with thunder, lightning and rain. I guess this is more common than i expected, and inches of water piled up in the low-lying areas of our campground. It was probably for the best that we didn't get there even thirty minutes sooner, or our tent may have ended up underwater. Storms like this explain why the landscape was so much more lush than I anticipated, a bright, young green that stuck around until we reached some higher and dryer elevations. I haven't spent much time in the desert, none until an unnecessary trip to Las Vegas sent me out and about in a convertible and I fell in love with the alien landscape. I think about moving to one of these places, but I worry about how sustainable it is to be a human who enjoys regular showers living in a land where the water source is someone else's diminishing abundance. For now, I'll try to visit and shower in the rain whenever possible.
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