Posted by: keegan (125 posts)
May 2, 200812:00 AM
To the best of my knowledge, these are the last pictures I shot on 35mm film. When we were living in Los Angeles back in 2003, I grabbed my trusty Yashica T* loaded up with black and white film, and Julie and I set off to explore the haunting Salton Sea area, about 60 miles to the south-east of Palm Springs.
We had heard it was an interesting place to visit, but we weren't prepared for the things we would see: An artificial mountain built of mud, paint and car tires as a monument to God's love (Salvation Mountain), entire neighborhoods, buildings and vehicles devoured by pink alkaline slurry, sulfurous boiling mudpots, defunct hotels from the 1950's heydays and a dead, smelly sea.
If you are ever in the area, be sure to make time for a visit.
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Piazza del Popolo, Rome
Union Square, intersection at 14th Street—this afternoon, sun's shadows seemed perfectly aligned and perpendicular with Manhattan's North-South streets today. I think many New Yorkers sensed this, but just didn't admit it to themselves.
caught that decisive moment of a goose bobbing down for food. the impression of its head has created a bowl shape in the water.
spent the weekend down in DC and visited the National Gallery which is one of my favorite museums. it's chuck full of masterpieces; the main rooms are all lit with natural light; and there's a beautiful austerity to how the art is displayed. this is a photo that i took of Randolph Rogers's marble statue entitled "Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii". carved in 1860. photography of a museum's general collection is usually permitted. it's the travelling shows that prohibit photographs.
