It's been a while since we've been out to the southwest deserts. This meandering trip takes us to the red rock canyon country surrounding Moab Utah, then onto the high desert surrounding Flagstaff Arizona. As always, we have no expectations - we will find what we will find. Our onward path will take us down the historic old Route 66, through little Seligman Arizona (where we holed up for a night almost 2 decades ago), and onto Kingman Arizona. We will cross the Mojave desert on our way to Barstow California, then spend a couple of days in the Paso Robles wine district, and up to Silicon Valley at Los Gatos. We will spend time again in Guerneville on the Russian River, soaking up more food and wine, and poking around the coast and the redwoods. We turn for home up the California coast, passing through Eureka and spending some time in Bandon Oregon for our annual fall beach break. We'll take a last stop for Newman's (what else?) in Cannon Beach and a dose of Astoria Coffee before finally heading home.
Our dailies are shot on Canon compacts - a G10 for Russ and a G11 for Wendy. The pictures are jpegs straight off the cameras - other than downsizing, there is no computer manipulation at all - there really isn't time for Photoshop while we're having fun.
By early 2012, we should have black and white work on our website's "photographs" page. The black and whites are exclusively shot on film, printed in our darkroom and scanned. Russ uses Ilford HP5 and Kodak HIE in 6x7cm, 24x70mm and 4x5 formats. Wendy uses Ilford Delta 400 and SFx in 6x6cm format, and Kodak HIE in 35mm format. Russ is working with Mamiya RZ67 and 7II, Fotoman PS45 with a superwide 47mm lens, and Linhof Technika V. Wendy is working with Canon F-1, Holga and Mamiya C330F. Check out our glossary page for more information on this gear.
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