The unexplored....
I thought I'd start the post holiday update with my favourite shot from the 'vacation'. I know we are back and the holiday is over but keep reading as updates will continue to be posted on a very regular basis.
This photo was take on US 54 just south of Valley Of The Fires, State Park in New Mexico. I'd seen a very similar photo on Flickr a few days before and attempted to take my own version. So I got Abi to stop and watch my back while I stood in the middle of the road and took god knows how many shots. Ive produced three versions for FLickr - colour, a washed out colour and then this. I used Photoshop to convert it to monochrome they played around with it to rough it up a little. I wanted a grainy, gritty photo to reflect the area. Even though haven't got the look I wanted (I'll keep on trying) I like the photo. My eyes follow the road to the sky and I'm thinking 'what's around the corner'? More of the same actually but I have to say that we really like Northen New Mexico. Very different from the south (lots of desert) with some lovely small towns. We had once of the nicest road trips in New Mexico - from Santa Fe to Durango, Colorado which took us up into the Rockies.
More to come....
FYI - US 54 runs from Texas for 1,197 miles to Illinois (almost to Chicago) and was constructed in 1926.
