March 2006 Archives

Death Valley - many degrees off normal

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Sunrise from the Zabriskie viewpoint, 180 degrees in the "wrong" direction

Last day in Death Valley, a sunrise shoot from the classic Zabriskie viewpoint. The temp at sunrise at the Racetrack had measured 24 degF, the sunrise at the sand dunes was blah, and we drove up to Z point in the rain! As I set up, looking east there was only a tiny slot that the sun could shoot through before the weather socked in. At least the wind wasn't blowing 30 mph, like out on the salt flats the evening before.

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Posted by AT on March 23, 2006 12:17 PM |

Our lady of Las Vegas - the American Dream

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Lady Liberty in a town where everyone is looking for Lady Luck

Not quite back in the saddle, but getting there. Making calls, putting queries in the mail. Updated the public website. Have a list of things to do when we get back from Death Valley, send out the Christmas project. I've started some new B&W conversions, printing very draft images today. I'll tape them to the door, ponder them a while. Send them out some place arty, literati, glitterati. When we get back.

Posted by AT on March 8, 2006 11:03 AM |

Litto's Hubcap Ranch

Litto's Hubcap Ranch, in eastern Napa Valley, Calif., is perhaps the West's flashiest roadide attraction, with more than 5,000 chrome hubcaps strung up along aong a quarter mile of fence (and trees and sheds). This collection - state landmark No. 939 - started in the 1930s, when Litto Damonte began setting out caps knocked loose by the area's roads; drivers added more. Today, his grandson tends the ranch and welcomes visitors and their picnics. 6654 Pope Valley Rd, off Highway 29.

Via Magazine

Posted by AT on March 8, 2006 8:24 AM |