High Dessert Drive

Day drive through the southern California high dessert, through Mojave and California City. On the way back home stopped in Agua Dulce.

Joshua Tree up close and personal

Somewhere near Mojave. Very windy. Very cold under the bright sun.

Perfect J Tree

Cruiser's Hill, middle of nowhere 

Wind Turbines

"New Promise Land Incorporated"

I was driving through Mojave, when I saw this building - New Promise Land Inc. Years ago I bought the photobook, Mossless Issue 3, The United States (2003-2013), a great book of photos from all over the US from 118 different photographers. I learned of the book from the Mossless blog which I followed. The editors at Mossless had people who pre-ordered the book vote for which photo should be used as the cover for the new book. I voted for this one: 

And here in Mojave, CA, I found this place. 

California City, Land of the Sun

High Desert Intersection

Vasquez Rocks, the classic old western scene...the backdrop of countless Hollywood films

Vasquez Rocks

Spring Bloom

The Widelux View

Back home...missing the open road

Instax Portraits

to post or not to post, that has been the question...

I was gifted an Instax mini 90 for christmas and that is really all I have been using to shoot since then. So, should I be scanning in and posting instant pics? or is that antithetical to the whole practice of instant pictures - to have the physical thing only and forego a digital copy. Also, do you include the white frame in the scanned copy or leave it out? If you leave out the border does that change the picture? I don't know, but I've gone a long time w/out posting and I thought I've collected a good number of portraits so I will share these for now (with borders)...

BTW its a great camera. Really fun and the film sports popping colors and very crisp macro features as well. The actual photo size is quite small so it is good for close-ups or photos otherwise focusing on a singular subject that ideally has some sort of striking color difference from its surroundings. Double-x too if that is your thing.....

Yer Boi, double-x-posed

Winter '16 in B&W

One roll of 35mm HP5. Travelled with me to a couple places...

Back to Battery Spencer one last time...
While taking photos there, a man approached Em and I and informed us that he was about to propose to his girlfriend. He asked us to photograph and video the event. He was nervous, and his hands shook as he passed over two phones, and pulled a ring out of his sunglasses case. We followed him over to his girlfriend and he got on one knee and did the deed. It was classic, she needed to catch her breath, began crying, said yes, and he then picked her up in her arms. We got it all on tape, returned the phones and gave congratulations. The new groom then pulled out his wallet and whipped out a crisp 100 dollar bill for our services. Good karma for the marriage, awesome!
After we parted ways we watched him pull a bottle of champagne out of his backpack and pop it. They drank while Facetiming family, all smiles...

Newly engaged

Em in our Berkeley AirB&B backhouse

Philz Coffee, SF

New England home, front

Em and Dog/New England home, back (1)

Em and Dog/New England home, back (2)

Dog and I

Dog in her favorite place (Clinton's too)

Widelux #9

i need to use this camera more...

GG from Battery Spencer (widelux version)

BART back to Berkeley

Andante Coffee Roasters on Sunset

Em ready to hike

Runyon Canyon on a hazy LA morning

Top of Runyon

Gentleman enjoying a nice Pannikin coffee

Home

Deck

Ski Time

Was using my sister's Olympus Stylus Epic Zoom 35mm cam for these pictures. It takes good shots if the conditions are right, but unfortunately it cant get the action shots I was going for. I'll excuse it though cause we were shredding pretty fast ;)

Myself, Reza, and Leila

Leila and I on the chair

Shredding

Posing

Shaya above the clouds