Entries from Ann-alog: a pixel remix tagged with 'Highway 89'
Seeing green
Cabin interior Lots of stuff is happening around the homestead: I'm getting ready to shoot my first stage of a new studio project, there's a talk coming up for the Utah Historical Society on Highway 89, and my first...
Rodeo: first column for the Heritage Highway Gazette
Saddle bronc rider, Browning Montana Long time friends of US89 Christian Probasco and Beckie Gregg have launched a new publication about the southern Utah segment of the highway, the Heritage Highway Gazette. Christian writes for the Sanpete Messenger in...
Lighting up the July skies
Sugarhouse Park, Salt Lake City, 2009 (ISO 100, 28-70 lens at 56mm, f14, 6.7 sec I'm on the road again (let's sing along) to Wayne County, Utah to photograph volunteers at Torrey's Apple Days celebration for my artist-in-residency project...
Book event, King's English Bookshop Thursday 7 pm
Panguitch Quilt Walk race Did I mention I'm telling stories about Highway 89 and signing books Thursday evening at the King's English Bookshop? I'm so proud to be featured at MY locally owened neighborhood bookstore. There aren't too many...
Bison don't have Mother's Day
Bison mother and calf, Yellowstone National Park Look at the size of that calf! Mothers Day is coming up and there's still time to send your mom a copy of U.S. Highway 89: the Scenic Route to Seven Western...
I love my retailers-Old Livery Mercantile, Wickenburg AZ
Brett with a copy of U.S. Highway 89 I went to Arizona last month and drove US89 the entire way--first time I've done some sections in a couple years. One of the best parts was getting to meet my...
Defining success, part 1
Running the remuda* Unless an author sells tens of thousands of copies, writing a book is not going to pay the bills. Breakthrough books from unknown authors happen, but my US89 book, with its admittedly niche subject, was never...
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...
Branding and marketing Highway 89
Test run of my 89 brand Last year, when I was regrouping over the loss my promised publishing contract, I took a day off and went to Mt. Pleasant to see my friend Reed Thomas's ranch in the winter....
Books in Stock!
1620 pounds of paper And safely under cover behind the palace gates. Andy And how could Andy not leave with a copy? The run to Phoenix on Highway 89 is one of his favorite roads too. Now to put...
No Looking Back Now
Reflection in Capitol Reef National Park Busy! We have generally turned our lives upside down: Arranged to refinance the palace to pay for a lot we bought in Torrey, UT near Capitol Reef National Park. I still can't believe...
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...
Proofs!
First proofs from U.S. Highway 89 book Anxious hardly describes how the wait for these proofs has been. Even though my printing experts said I had done the CMYK conversions right, despite the fact that the screen proofs were...
Victory! U.S. Highway 89 is off to the printer
Background image used in the cover of my book on U.S. 89 After making the last 22 tweaks today, I can finally say this: done. As in finished, burned to a DVD, down payment check written, U.S. Highway 89...
Another bites the dust-Highway 89 outtake
Haymaking equipment known as a "beaverslide" For the whole time I have been working on the U.S. Highway 89 book, I have been focused on keeping the final product as affordable as possible. A fancy coffee table book would...
Book progress and a lesson learned
Screen shot of my U.S. Highway 89 book Progress, frustratingly slow, but progress nevertheless. I don't dare put a date on when it will go to press, but it is going. Here's a screen shot of the introductory spread...
Another 'reject' - Grand Teton National Park
The Grand Teton, tallest of them all I counted up the photos in the nearly final layout of the Highway 89 book: 176. But not this one. I didn't do anything with this when I shot it in 2006--two...
Three Days Old
Three day old foal Even though I'm about done shooting for Highway 89 project, I can't seem to get away from Sanpete County. We went down to Spring City Heritage Day, and on the way, met up with a...
Lava Falls, Grand Canyon National Park
Lava Falls, Grand Canyon National Park The second half of our rafting party gets the thrill of a lifetime in the Grand Canyon's biggest rapid. I have barely had time to scan through the 42 GB of images I...
Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone NP
Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone NP This image needs a home, because there's only room for one Lower Yellowstone Falls image in the U. S. 89 book. This isn't the one, but calling it a reject just ain't right. So...
Union Pacific Steam Engine Visits Ogden, UT
Union Pacific's historic engine 844 visited Ogden, Utah this weekend Yesterday, I had time to read only a dozen Twitter updates. Luckily, Scott Smith's tweet about Union Pacific's steam locomotive 844 arriving in Ogden was one of them. Because...
Redefining success
Mutton-busting, in which innocents are launched for a wild ride for the amusement of others. At least I'm not the sheep. (Mount Pleasant, Utah) Dear readers, if I have any readers left after my blogging hiatus, I have been wrapping...
Cowboy Bar
Cowboy Bar, Jackson Wyoming I knew in the back of my mind that I had a keeper of this neon, but then I moved on. Today I put some time into readying it for the Highway 89 project....
I cannot explain this: zebras in Sanpete County
I found some zebras yesterday in a Sanpete County pasture Sanpete County, about 100 miles from Salt Lake City, is famous for many kinds of animals: Rambouillet sheep breeding in the 1920s, the turkey farms of the 1940s and...
Utah Utes Parade
Victory parade for 13-0 Utah Utes football team Alternate caption: "Dude, what's with the rat dog?" The player at left is throwing candy to the crowd; the one at right looks none too sure about the fan with dog....
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...
Brand-maker
Sparks from the welder's flame I read plenty about the new Internet economy and social media. Plenty of self-styled experts are expounding on the importance of branding my identity, etc., etc., etc. How do they monetize harping and nagging...
Maddox Redux
Multiple exposure When I started out with my Nikon N80, I made some multiple exposure images that I liked. I now think of them as precursors to the remix series. Then I got my D70, which didn't have multiple...
Highway 89 News Round-up
Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon NP Some folks on US 89 are already skiing, others are enjoying the last elk calls and sunny afternoons before deep winter sets in, and we have one last football weekend, a big ones for...
Random thoughts about US89
Sandstone reflections I spent the last two days editing the Utah chapters of my opus on US Highway 89, which means I have been rifling through my books, notes and photocopies for random facts that need checking. Like these...
Highway 89 News Round-up
New in fall 2008, wind farm at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon Having polished off that Halloween candy, folks along US 89 are catching their breath from all the election news, before turning their attention to the proper...
Highway 89 News Round-up
Bridge in Zion National Park The election signs are coming down and the holiday decorations are starting to appear on lightpoles along historic Highway 89. The winter road closures in Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton are in place; Zion...
Aspencade
My favorite aspens We probably wouldn't have gone to Jackson this year if I hadn't needed to visit the town library. The scientist has been under extraordinary pressure these last few months, and it's hard to justify the time...
Previsualization, photo projects, and plywood
Plywood now covers most of the windows of this former LDS ward building, privately owned, in Ovid, Idaho The first ever Bear Lake Photo Seminar was a great success, with over 50 people attending and lots of participation. Harley...
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...
Highway 89 News Round-up
LDS Temple in Manti Utah Campaign signs mingle their traditional red, white and blue hues with the seasonal colors on historic Highway 89. This last few days of ordinary time, before Halloween launches America into the holiday season, will...
Book-building one image at a time: Wilsall MT Grain Elevator
Grain elevator in Wilsall, Montana In the process of getting ready to talk about my U.S. 89 project on Saturday, I decided to pull together the images I made since I last gave this talk in May to see...
Highway 89 news round-up
Cowboys have finished gathering the cattle from summer range. Pumpkins decorate porches, raked leaves are starting to pile up in front yards along historic Highway 89. Mid-October means orange hunting vests, football games to decide championships, and getting together those...
Launching into flight (upcoming photo dates)
American White Pelicans at Bear Lake, Idaho/Utah Sometimes I can only shake my head at myself. This photo has been sitting, languishing even, in the archive. When I took it (June 2007), it didn't "fit" into my vision of...
Highway 89 news round-up
The Yavapai County Courthouse Freezing temperatures are predicted this weekend for much of the territory along historic Highway 89. It's time to harvest the last of the tomatoes. Might see some pumpkin patches dusted with snow. Even Phoenix is...
A perfect morning at the Oxbow, Grand Teton NP
Clouds on Mt. Moran at the Oxbow overlook, Grand Tetons National Park (panorama of seven images merged in Photoshop The mountain was completely socked in at dawn. We went back to sleep, ate breakfast. I said, "Even if it...
Highway 89 news round-up
High Schools up and down US Highway 89 have been celebrating Homecoming this week. Think marching bands, Homecoming court candidates, chrysanthemum corsages, hand-painted signs, and football game heartbreakers. No sports scores this week, but lots of Homecoming news. Headlines from...
Pronghorns on the way to Jackson Hole
Herd of Pronghorn near Bondurant, Wyoming My troops revolted yesterday. Or is it troop, when there's only one member of the corps? Anyway, R insisted that we take the US 189 route to Jackson, through Evanston, Kemmerer, Big Piney...
Highway 89 news round-up
Highway 89 news round-up The maple leaves are crimson between Fairview and Spanish Fork, Utah today. The farmstands are overflowing with apples, the last of the corn, and a few early pumpkins. The weekend weather forecast looks spectacular along most...
Cowboy'd up
Denim and leather Another image from Triple Sage Ranch Horse Challenge last week. At last report, I was in the throes of writing for the Highway 89 project. This week, same song, different verse. I'm still writing, I've just...
Highway 89 news round-up
Summer is winding down on U.S. Route 89. Even in Phoenix, the daily high is predicted to stay below 100°F for the week ahead. It's time to start looking for the autumn colors of the aspen and cottonwoods at the...
Bring the Herd to Idaho - workshop announcement
Traffic jam on U.S. Route 89 in Idaho U.S. Route 89 cuts off the southeast corner of Idaho around the margin of Bear Lake. The folks there make up for the shortage in Highway 89 mileage with an excess...
Highway 89 news round-up
I'm starting a weekly round-up of local news in communities along the 1,600 miles of historic Highway 89. I'll be featuring items that won't make the national media, plus a don't-miss upcoming weekend event somewhere along the highway. Here's the...
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...
A word or two about amaranath
Amaranth plant in full flower You start a conversation you can't even finish it. You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything. When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. Say something once, why say it...
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...
Lake Grinnell, Glacier National Park
Glacial melt forms Lake Grinnell in Glacier National Park Lake Grinnell is about a 3 mile hike from Many Glaciers Hotel on the east side of Glacier National Park. Some people make a shorter hike out of it by...
East side of Logan Pass, Glacier NP
Toward Logan Pass, Glacier National Park The Highway 89 project marches on, this time to the top of Going-to-the-Sun Road. Here's a view from the east side, looking to the west in late afternoon. I wanted to shoot this...
Regardless of the price of gas...
Lower Yellowstone Falls Regardless of the price of gas, visitation at the two biggest NPS units on Highway 89 was at record levels in June. The USA Today reported that Yellowstone had 612,000 tourist visits in June, while the...
Roping 'em in
2006 Fairview Pioneer Days Rodeo It's time to make plans for a uniquely Utah holiday, Pioneer Day, celebrated on July 24. All up and down Highway 89 will be parades, pancake breakfasts, rodeos, and even a demolition derby in...
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...
Where you are - State Street Neon
Capitol Motel, State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs...
Best and Worst in Choteau MT
Restored neon at the American Legion Hall, Choteau Montana I was standing in the middle of Highway 89 my first afternoon in Choteau, making a necessary photo for the project, when a gentleman emerged from the bar to ask...
Grain Elevator - Choteau MT
Grain Elevator, Choteau, MT Am I the only one who finds grain elevators monumental? Probably. I am fascinated with them, the little personal ones on the edges of a field, the huge Anheuser Busch barley facility south of here....
Living Traditions Festival - Salt Lake City
Thai fruit carving demonstration I finally had a chance to go to the Living Traditions Festival at the City/County Building this year, and photographed several of the demonstrating craftspeople for the Highway 89 project. As always with this project,...
Great [Blank] Slate
Slate at 9 1/2 weeks I passed a milestone today. I've written 50% of the first draft for the Highway 89 book. Even better, of the part I've written, three chapter are edited and pretty much done. When I...
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...
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...
More takes on Highway 89
On Friday, I went to see not one, but two exhibitions showcasing the Utah section of Highway 89. It was a great opportunity to see other artists' perspectives on my favorite topic. John Telford, one of Utah's most well-respected photographers,...
More PS blending modes: Color Burn/Dodge and Linear Burn/Dodge
Reed Thomas's Quarter Horses, Mount Pleasant, Utah In previous posts, I discussed the use of Photoshop's some blending modes for image adjustments: darken/lighten and multiply/screen. Today I am comparing four more blending modes: Color Burn vs Linear Burn and...
Flying M
The Flying M cafe is in Panguitch, Utah Today is another flying day. I said good-bye to mom yesterday, leaving her in good spirits and with a freezer full of home-cooked zip-locked meals. Today, I go back to the...
Cedar Breaks watercolor
Cedar Breaks National Monument I returned on Thursday to Phoenix to lend a hand while my Mom is laid up with an injury. I had the G9 out in the cabin while I read the manual with some deliberation....
Highway 89 in Google Maps
View Larger Map Google Maps view of Highway 89 I created a map of many of my favorite sites along Highway 89. It's a public map, so please feel free to add your contributions if you have a Google account....
Cue the Bison, Yellowstone NP
Bison and Old Faithful Right on cue, this bison ambled in front of Old Faithful on Tuesday....
Ice Column, Afton Wyoming
Ice Column, Afton, Wyoming Can anyone explain how this ice column erupted out of the farmland alongside U.S. Highway 89 in Afton, WY? On the way to Jackson today, I saw three of them. This one was the largest,...
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...
MacGuyvering - Zion National Park
We were discussing the MacGuyvering of photo gear on the PhotowalkingSLC Flickr site today, which reminded me that I had rediscovered this pair of photos. The location is the Big Bend pull-out in Zion canyon. It was mid-afternoon on...
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...
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...
Day of the Condor story
Condor with layered textorizer effect I wrote a story about the day I photographed the condors at the Grand Canyon on my main website. I used the story text to make the textorizer2 file of the condor. It's a...
Must feed blog - pumpkin pie
Springville, Utah If I write a philosophy book someday, one of the chapters is going to be about how no matter how much you improvise, sometimes you have to break out the lard. I've been trying for 20 years...
One down, many more to go
Book research, box 1 With 4 rounds of printing, and a trip to the Post Office, I am crossing off a major item off my GTD list of projects. So now it's back to distilling the factual material I...
A plethora of B&W conversions
Wedding mehndi in black and white Mehndi images have been very popular in searches of my site of late, especially from google.co.uk. Here's the color version of same image. Let me tell you, the hot gold, magenta robes, and...
The Second Sunrise - Bryce Canyon
Don't sleep in The second morning at Bryce Canyon, in which I did not sleep in, was even more magnificent. I moved around a lot, recomposed several variations, all the while the colors were getting more saturated. I did...
Bryce Canyon
Pinnacles at sunset Glorious, absolutely stunning sunrise colors this morning, but I don't trust the monitor on this laptop well enough, so this will have to do. Afternoon light is challenging at Bryce, because the formations face east, are...
Rainy Saturday Morning
Bear Lake from the new rest stop above Garden City last weekend It's a rainy Saturday morning. No errands. So what's a girl to do? Haircut - take off 3 inches, catch up with Thomas the hairstylist/bass musician about...
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...
The art of shameless self-promotion
My new license plates These new plates did not arrive before the big Montana voyage. Too bad, I could have used them for 2950 miles of shameless self-promotion. It has occurred to me that I am giving up the...
Northern Sentries
Jay Polite Laber sculpture detail, north of Babb, MT on Hwy 89 One major target for the Montana trip was to make some images of Jay Polite Laber's fabulous sculptures marking the northern boundary of the Blackfeet Reservation. I...
Mountain Goats
Mountain Goat, Glacier National Park Yes, two people can live and sleep for 22 days out of a Toyota 4Runner and still enjoy one another's company and the road. We have designated every nook and cranny in the craft...
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...
Guest blogger Millie on the Great Western Road Trip
Hay field below Glacier National Park, Montana Guest blogger Millie tells about our adventure: From Salt Lake City at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains and the edge of the Great Basin, to the end of Highway 89 at...
Task accomplished - Highway 89 book logo
My Highway 89 book logo I finished my logo yesterday and have been ordering paraphenalia ever since. I meet so many nice people on the road, and I want to have a postcard sized giftee in my bag for...
Paria, Utah
Near the Paria movie sets, Utah I managed to delay my launch on Sunday (by dawdling) and then missed a turn in Cedar City, so by sunset, I was pretty sure I'd blocked off my options for any decent...
Church Building - Ovid, Idaho
A former LDS ward building, now privately owned, in Ovid, Idaho When I was wandering about extreme southeastern Idaho last weekend, I had a chance to photograph this old church building. Last time R and I drove by, we...
Top of the Crop - Mt. Pleasant, Utah
Mares and foals from Reed Thomas Quarterhorses People ask me how I get myself into situations like a herd of horses heading my way at full gallop. Tuesday's first appointment is a good example about how I go about...
Mormon Miracle Pageant - Manti, Utah
The Lamoni Queen Isn't Jacqueline beautiful in her costume? I went down to Sanpete County yesterday for the project and met some wonderful people in Manti. A few facts on the Mormon Miracle Pageant: 600+ performers (the town has...
Real milkshakes - Bancroft Idaho
Toolson's general store in Bancroft Idaho I invited myself to accompany the Idaho Bear Lake/Oregon Trail Scenic Byway committee on a tour of "their" section of U.S. 89 from St. Charles to Montpelier last Saturday. I learned a lot...
Launching over the Abyss
Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon National Park, from the Highway 89 series It's launch time! The new gallery for my U.S. Highway 89 book project is officially open. I've added many pictures that have not been blogged before. I hope...
