I was on my motorbike, about 40 miles north of San Francisco, headed out to the coast to ride the perfectly smooth and amazingly curvy section of Highway 1 that runs along the edge of Tomales Bay. I passed this old decaying truck sitting by the side of the road. I knew that I had to photograph it, but I didnt have my camera with me. So, I came back the next day.
It took me over an hour to get all the pictures that I wanted. It shouldnt have taken that long, but for a lot of the pictures I was lying on my stomach in the dirt with my feet sticking out into the narrow country road. I had to keep jumping up to get off the road every time that I heard a car coming. Passing drivers must have wondered why there was a guy standing by the side of the road, covered in dirt, holding a camera.
I increased the saturation in this photograph. When I did, all these great colors jumped out. I have this photograph in my living room at home. It is printed on metallic paper and looks almost 3D.
Now Im looking for a decaying old Chevy truck. Let me know if you have one that I can photograph. I'll consider it a bonus if I dont need to lie in the road to take the pictures.
This is El Capitan, one of the massive granite cliffs that surround Yosemite Valley. It is very popular with climbers. On pretty much any day of the year, if you grab a pair of binoculars and search the rock face, you'll eventually spot tiny dots working their way up the sheer face, or hanging in their suspended tents!
I took this photo in December of 2002. I had purchased my first digital camera a couple of weeks earlier, but didn't use it for "real" photographs, so what you see here is a scan of the slide that I took with my Canon film SLR.
The sun was going down and Yosemite valley was getting dark. I needed to use a slow shutter speed - many seconds - so the water became glassy smooth and produced a nice reflection of the cliff face as it was turned red by the setting sun.
