Night Shift - The Most Recent Additions

The Kingsway Motel, Belmont, CA

Parking Lot, Broadway, Los Angeles

Mojave: Back Into The Night

For any number of reasons I hadn't been able to get out and do any night shooting for the last few months.  To get back up to speed I took a trip to Mojave, best known to most peopl as the home of Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites and the site where Spaceship One made the first civilian-funded manned spaceflight.  The actual town of Mojave, however, is a seedy little collection of truckstops and low-rent motels.  It's not a place to live, really.  It's enough just to pass through...

A wounded beast...

Stairway to... Heaven?

It Snowed...

It does indeed snow in souther California, especially at higher elevations...

The view of our valley from the trail where I run

Farther down the trail, a Joshua Tree eerily backlit by the sun

Las Vegas

We visit Las Vegas every couple of years - which is funny because we don't gamble.  The attraction, I suppose, besides the shows, food and human carnival is the Diney-esque quality of the place.  However, as the experience has declined with each visit, it may be some time before we return.  So here are what may be my last images of the place for a while...

The Strip, looking south...

The new City Center development

Prada at the City Center

Planet Hollywood

5th Street Liquors, on Vegas' Neon Row

Hoover Dam at Sunset with the new Bypass (now open) in the background.

The Bypass under construction

A derelict waystation between Baker and Vegas.

Miscellaneous Photos

Since I haven't posted anything in a while, I thought it might be a good time to put up some photos that, for whatever reason, hadn't made the blog.

Cedar Breaks, Utah, at sunset.

The Hoover Dam Bypass under construction.

Red Rocks Park and...

...on the way to Red Rocks

San Diego

We took a trip to San Diego in September and, although I shot quite a few pictures, the ones that stood out were those taken at the Zoo and the Wild Animal Park, now called the Safari Park.

California Poppy Preserve

Got these pictures last spring at the California Poppy Preserve and am just now getting them posted.  It was an especially good season for the poppies, and a beautiful day...