Entries from Ann-alog: a pixel remix tagged with 'Arizona'
Diner
Winslow, Arizona Seen on the historic Rte. 66 in Winslow, Arizona. "The" corner, now turned into a tacky tourist shrine, was completely torn up by road work. I roamed around the rest of the historic district, in various states...
Highway icons #1
Verde Valley, Arizona (Nikon D700 with 16-35 VR at 16mm, ISO 400 f8 at 1/500sec I spy the tiniest bit of flare, not an offensive shape either, from the Nikon 16-35 VR. It's weird out there. Time to get...
On the road again
Winslow, Arizona...
Ten more from 2009
Winter feeding in Sanpete County On New Year's Eve at just before 10 pm, I hit a milestone in the two-plus year goal of establishing a workflow for cataloguing, ranking and labeling my RAW files: all of 2008 and...
Crossing bridges one at a time
Twin Marble Canyon bridges, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area The good news is that the books are done, bound and in a shipping container somewhere on the high Pacific. The bad news is that I am attempting to update...
Best of 2008 on Highway 89
I wasn't going to blog a best-of for 2008, mostly because the end-of-year recap on my 2008 resolutions was already nagging at me. The national implosion of the publishing industry directly impacted my Highway 89 project, and by the end...
Winter in Wupatki NM
Lomaki Pueblo at Wupatki NM A year ago today I was at one of the jewels of the National Parks system, Wupatki NM. Dusted with a little snow, it's one of my favorite places on US Highway 89. Kurt...
New Windsor
New Windsor Neon This image is all about cool: cool blues, the 1950s jazzy kind of cool, the cool of a late evening. How deceptive images can be: it was 100 degrees in Phoenix that night. When I went...
Grand Canyon Lodge at sunset
Sunset behind the Grand Canyon Lodge at the North Rim Even though the sunset didn't bounce into the Grand Canyon the day I was there, I did make the files I needed to composite this image. I knew in...
Inevitable dust - North Rim, Grand Canyon NP
Sunrise at Bright Angel Point, Grand Canyon National Park I scored a last-minute reservation at the North Rim for the last night of my tour through Arizona for the Highway 89 project. Not that I spent much time in...
The pictures we want to make - Saguaro National Park
Monsoon clouds over Saguaro National Park I came to Arizona with an agenda, a list of essential photos for the U.S. Highway 89 book project. I have a vision for the book, I can see it almost page-by-page. For...
Twin bridges over Marble Canyon, Arizona
Twin bridges over Marble Canyon and the Colorado River Arizona's first state highway, U.S. 89, was mostly complete from Nogales to Flagstaff by 1926. The segment from Flagstaff to the Utah line took much longer. Lee's Ferry over the...
Outside the boundary - Flagstaff, Arizona
ATV tracks on lava sands near, but outside, the boundary of Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument I'm taking today off. In the five days since I left SLC, I drove 1,600 miles, including three trips from Phoenix to Tucson...
New friends, new heights: Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
Horseshoe Bend near Page Arizona One of the great things about the blogosphere is the people you might meet. I say "might" because the blog only goes so far. At some point, I have to pick up the phone...
How did I get up here? Sunset Crater Volcanic NM
Sunrise over Sunset Crater Volcanic National Monument sunset crater national monument aerial Sunset Crater Volcanic National Monument, established in part to stop a Hollywood film crew from dynamiting it for the movie "Avalanche" in 1928, looks pretty spectacular at...
Using sunrise/sunset data to plan an outing
Chapel at San Xavier del Bac, Arizona At our last Photowalk, we got to the Great Salt Lake almost 3 hours before sunset, which gave us some time to kill. We did so profitably, but it made for a...
Meanwhile, back on Highway 89...
Neon sign in Phoenix, Arizona Now that I'm done playing with the ponies, I'm back to writing. This week, I'm cruising along the Highway 89 chapter on Tucson to Rte 66. That's where you will find this fantastic neon...
Progress, whinging, lame excuses
Mill Avenue Bridge, Tempe, Arizona Here we are, the first quarter of 2008 gone. I made a photo or two, like this one at the Mill Avenue Bridges, the original route over the Salt River to reach Phoenix from...
Karen the saddle-maker
Custom saddle-making The Desert Caballeros Museum hosts an annual exhibition of cowgirl artists, called Cowgirl Up! I saw the 2007 show, but it wasn't up last month when I was in Wickenburg for Gold Rush Days. After I made...
Cowgirl Casual
Boot bouquet, Blue & yellow #1 I generally agree with Thoreau: I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. However, if I am going to learn to ride a...
More from Hells Angel Prison Run, Florence Arizona
More photos from last weekend's Hells Angels Prison Run in Florence Arizona. I've had a lot of new blog visitors since I posted about the Hell's Angels Prison Run. Here are some more photos from the event. What was...
Hells Angels Prison Run - Florence, Arizona
Hells Angels Prison Run - Florence, Arizona Update 15 Feb 2008: more photos here The 25th edition of the Hells Angel Prison Run slowed traffic on the old Highway 89 between Tucson and U.S. 60 to a crawl yesterday....
Gold Rush Days - Wickenburg
Seen on the streets of Wickenburg Wickenburg launches its annual Gold Rush Days festivities with a gun battle in the streets, after the mayor's speech, and some other preliminaries that didn't capture my attention. This is the 60th year...
Moving Light Show - Tempe, Arizona
LED light show on the new light rail bridge over the Salt River, Tempe Town Lake I hadn't heard of the LED display on the METRO light rail bridge over the Salt River before I got my private scouting...
Thoughts on electric devices, and fear
Bill Johnson's Big Apple restaurant We returned to Salt Lake to find the front of our palace draped in plastic in an attempt for the remodel to proceed despite the weather. Two electric space heaters running all night added...
A very happy New Years, and a list for 2008
New Years Fireworks at Tempe Town Lake, Arizona Many of my dilemmas about photographing U.S. 89 have had the same solution: pay attention to what is right in front of me. I have wanted one more photo from the...
If I won the lottery...
Deer-O Motel sign I would make a home for all the old neon relics that could still be found and restore them to their proper colorful, blinking status. Van Buren Street in Phoenix was the old US Highway 89...
WUPA interview
Phan, Chi and Dennis I once learned a field shorthand for birding, useful when the multitudes of species are flying about faster than one hand can write while the other is steadying a pair of binoculars. A simple name...
I met Santa in Williams Arizona
Santa cruising Route 66/US 89 I spent the better part of today making B&W conversions of some Highway 89 project photos. Usually I start by inspecting each color channel in my image for clues on how a particular image...
Vermillion Cliffs, Arizona
The Vermillion Cliffs from the Hwy 89 viewpoint north of Bitter Springs I spent this week alternating among book chapter edits, the shocking backlog of Photoshop work, and the downright appalling backlog of housework. Progress, but no completion on...
Route 66 and Hwy 89, part 1, Williams, Arizona
Route 66 signage, Williams, Arizona Another neon sign I found on my last trip to Arizona, made quite a bit earlier in the evening, and a better illustration about the "blue light special" than the previous post. Everyone knows...
Neon - Flagstaff
Neon street scene outside the Montevista Hotel, Flagstaff, Arizona I have been accused (in a friendly way) of holding back my best pictures from my recent trips, so here's one of my favorites from the Flagstaff advenutre. I've learned...
Fire-works, Williams, Arizona
4th of July Fire north of I-40, Williams, Arizona The City of Flagstaff cancelled their holiday fireworks about the day I arrived. Much unhappiness about the last hour decision-making; the civic groups had already invested up front money in...
Abstraction from the Hall of Flame - Phoenix, AZ
Wheel from a restored fire truck, the Hall of Flame Museum, Phoenix A foreigner stays a foreigner a long time, whether its a friendly foreigner or whatever. You drag the luggage of otherness with you for a long time....
Wait just a few more minutes
Sunset at Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon National Park The day I saw the condors at El Tovar started out with a clear blue sky. Over the course of the afternoon, it clouded over with potential. I parked my car...
On Being a Woman Photographer
Desert View Watchtower (1932) - Mary Colter, Architect [Updated 2007.10.15 - I've been collecting links to great women photographers - gathered in my Women in the Field archive to share. Email me with suggestions to grow this list.]I couldn't...
Antelope Canyon - Page, Arizona
Antelope Canyon I was granted a perfect day for my first visit to a Colorado Plateau slot canyon with no danger of flash floods. So cloudless that I didn't even bother with sunrise that morning, saving my energy for...
Snowing in Arizona
A 1931 REO, One of two registered REOs in the nation, per its proud owner/restorer/driver 12 days into my road trip, and yesterday I broke down and ate fast food. The appeal is all in the consistency - when...
Prickly Pear to Ponderosa - Prescott, AZ
Prickly Pear, a food source for desert rabbits like the one mowing down the plant in my mom's yard. I had another run-in with a cactus yesterday outside of Wickenburg. This one prevailed, and I learned that spines are...
Water in the desert - Phoenix
Arizona Falls, Phoenix Mom and I have been to the Waterworks or Arizona Falls twice in two days. Yesterday, someone got there first to do senior portraits, and then a thunderstorm chased us out early, so I didn't get...
Random observations from the road: Phoenix, Arizona
Saguaro in bloom,/p> Random observations from the road: I learned this week that saguaros blossom after they gow to 8 feet tall. If you happen to go tromping though the desert in your only pair of shoes, it's a good...
Cacti at the cathedral - Tucson, Arizona
Detail of Tucson's St. Augustine Cathdral More mariachi today, at the Fiesta de Garibaldi in the park. Before the fiesta, the confereees held a mariachi mass at the Cathedral, where I shot this picture early this morning. In the...
In a swirl of color and sound
Folkloric dancers I get to meet the greatest people on my project, and yesterday was a perfect example. I spent some time back stage at the Tucson International Mariachi Conference Student Showcase, with the performers, their parents, their mentors...
Bathing Beauty Neon - Mesa Arizona
The divers light up in a three-blink sequence, finishing with a splash I spotted this sign on my first December trip to AZ, nabbed the photo on New Year's Day during the second trip. I've been smiling about it...
Clearing Storm - Grand Canyon National Park
Mohave Point, Grand Canyon National Park The big snow storm before Christmas spread from SLC all the way to middle Arizona, so we accelerated our departure by 24 hours. Two punctured tires, a stop at Cabela's for hand-warmers, a...
Wupatki NM
Lomaki ruins, Wupatki National Monument One thing I love about my book project is the unending list of destinations to explore. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the amount of work to do, but then I have a day like...
Dollop of glass transformed - Tucson, Arizona
A dollop of glass is twisted into the hanging loop That one's mine. I helped make it at the Sonoran Glass Art Academy on my Tucson trip. It's yellow and hyacinth, with a twist. The process was fascinating, although...
Spiraling in/out of control - Tucson to SLC
Detail of San Xavier del Bac Mission 2010 miles from start to finish, Salt Lake to Nogales, and I am still making sense of everything I learned on this trip. Certain details stay with me, like this decorative element...
White Dove of the Desert - San Xavier del Bac
San Xavier del Bac continues to host an active congregation on the San Xavier Indian reservation, with an adjacent school. I visited it three times in four days. This morning I saw the nuns walking from their quarters to...
Traversing Arizona: Tucson to Tumacacori
Still drawing in customers with this neon sign in central Tucson. I've traversed Arizona from north to south on this trip, from Page to Nogales, making pictures and some new friends. I happen to love old neon, couldn't resist...
