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Today I made it through the rest of Missouri and into Illinois. I stopped at this point so I could watch a movie at a real drive in theater in the Bus! As I post this, I'm in line waiting for them to let us into the Sky View Drive-in.
The photograph above was taken this morning in Hazelgreen, MO. It was as if a jungle had started to reclaim the gas station. As always, you can click on the image for a larger version.
I'm being lazy tonight (would rather listen to the rain than play on the computer). The photo above is from the side of a truck that was parked up against the side of an old garage. I did apply the find edges filter in multiply mode and masked it into the letters and lighting effects to darken the edges.
Today, I made quite a bit of progress going across Oklahoma. There are no where near as many abandoned buildings in this part of the state compared to other parts of Route 66.
The photograph above was taken in Catoosa, OK. It's the interior of a large blue whale thingie that used to be part of a swimming hole. Do a google search on "catoosa blue whale" and I'm sure you'll find more info than you care to know about.
I got a late start today (around noon) and made it just short of my goal, which was Oklahoma City. I didn't take anywhere near as many photographs today compared to yesterday, but still had a good time exploring Oklahoma.
The shot above was taken just outside Foss, OK. In this image, I liked the way the door was holding itself open by strategically falling apart and using its own boards to do the job. Also, once you got in... you really were still outside, since there was no roof or windows.
Today I drove from Amarillo, TX to Elk City, OK along Route 66. I started shooting around 4am and shot more than 8GB before the sun even came up. I think I filled four 8GB cards total today... when am I going to make time to process all those images? Especially when I'll be shooting every day, all day long, for the next week.
The photograph above was taken before sunrise this morning at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX. The only light source I used were a few sparklers I bought on the 4th of July. You can see two more images taken from the same vantage point, but in completely different styles after the jump.
After spending a day doing laundry and other non-exciting tasks, I lifted anchor and drove from Dallas to Amarillo, TX. I'll be picking up Route 66 tomorrow and should be driving and shooting for the next 7+ days and should end up in Chicago.
I finished up my week-long class at Anderson Ranch today and then got adopted by another class who took me out for a beer afterwards. The pic above is straight from my iPhone and was taken at around 8:30pm, which is why is looks so lousy.
I'll be heading back to Texas in the morning and should be picking up Route 66 again by Monday.
This morning about half of my class got up for an optional sunrise shoot at Maroon Bells, which is only about 30 minutes from Anderson Ranch. The water wasn't as still as we could have liked, but we found a nice spot with an odd shaped log and some still water.
Well, I finally made my way out to the car to retrieve my Compact Flash card and processed one of the images I shot yesterday. This is the view looking out of one of the buildings in the Ashcroft ghost town, which is near Aspen.
Today I photographed Maroon Bells at sunrise and then explored the ghost towns at Ashcroft and Independence Pass. I would post an image from one of those locations, but my Compact Flash card is in the trunk of my car and I'm feeling way too lazy to retrieve it.
The image above was shot at around 8:00pm at ISO3200 (or whatever the highest setting is that a 5D can be set to... it appears as "H" in the display) with the camera mounted on a monopod. It's a shot of one of the buildings on the Anderson Ranch campus that I took right after giving a talk about my mobile lifestyle and Route 66 images. I'll be teaching the creative side of Photoshop all this week.
