Yosemite Valley in May was a zoo. Tuolumne Meadows not so much and easy camping, non-stealth. In my early twenties, I did no more than 3-4 days in places like Yosemite, Mt. Whitney and Death Valley, so I am giving my self a present of not days but weeks on end in these places with Kodachrome. It’s surreal…

Need to wear more sunscreen, I am getting wrinkly. Warnings about Playa dust at Burning Man hosing cameras have me concerned, hoping Gaffers tape and multiple daily doses of canned air keep the rigs healthy…

On the way to Tuolumne now, mighty far windy….winder if this guy will lose his raft…?

In two weeks, I have spent very little time on the computer or phone….nice. Over 60 miles of hiking and countless hours of shooting in Glacier National Park, the Centennial year. Now need historical and human elements…Back at it…

I am kind of hooked on Glacier National Park for the moment…nice cool weather, flowing mountain streams, vertically inspiring. Even the goats are cool to hang out with…ok…maybe a few more days..

Got to really looking at my film today, came out well. One slight downer was the auto-braketing not working right on my rented Canon EOS-1n. Out of six rolls, I got a lot less keepers due to exposure. Luckily, the shot I wanted came out pretty much dead on if not only slightly under, maybe a quarter to one third under. So I am going to send the slide off to West Coast Imaging to have a high end drum scan made. That ought to bring back a stop or more of range. You can see in the images below that the Google Earth view and actual view are pretty close.

And the real one…

The night was cool, the dream would come soon…

June 21st is widely known as the longest day of the year. But for me, the relentless pouring of sunlight would occur a few days before. It all started as I awoke from a vivid dream on a warm Spring day in mid town Manhattan.

I did not even have to question it, I leapt out of bed and instantly knew without looking at a clock or peering out the blinds that sunlight was piercing through the windows of a building that looked not unlike the iconic black obelisk in the film 2001 Space Odyssey. I grabbed my panoramic camera, swept open the blinds and there was the scene my instinct had foretold before my lens.

The day was the long, the light strong…

After a well timed walk down 3rd Avenue with picture taking the whole way, I arrived at a cafe in the East Village to meet fellow Kodachrome shooter Jeff Jacobson. It took us all of perhaps ten minutes to eat, but the visit lasted two hours, time very well spent.
I spent the rest of the day photographing the people and places in New York physically tired, otherwise very attuned and awake. As I walked around before catching my flight, I envisioned what New York City might look like having been taken over by plants, animals and time….it was whimsical to think this way. Right on time, I made my flight thanks to a smart and yet courteous cab driver…he did not even do the incessant “Break and Stop” as most of them do.

The flight was short, but the sunset forever…

My plane departed right at Sunset from
JFK. As we rose out of the haze, the sun dipped down out of sight, until 15 minutes later, it rose again from the same place it had departed. This would go on for hours with Sunset taking over half the flight and dusk lasting until we landed in Denver. I kept photographing the waning light along with lightning storms that were scattered on the horizon.

Our lives are bound by sunlight. The longest day of it for me was not June 22nd but instead June 19th and it was a good day…

Nearly two weeks now in the Big Apple thanks to a free apartment in mid town Manhattan. A killer aerial flight over Times Square, all good.

Lately, I have had only one day in between travels and I really like it. Yosemite was believe it or not, harder to shoot than Paris. It mostly had to do with the light….or lack of it. So now I am on my way to New York. A short stop over in Steamboat Springs, then Denver ( note chalk art competition in Larimer Square ). Then the red-eye into New York. Only 207 days left to shoot Kodachrome…

Well after a couple days of negotiating for camp spots, and that eats up lots of time, I am good to go for awhile.

It took me a few hours just to quickly go through the film from paris, a deeper edit will follow my next outing. A few images did make it to the scanner before I hit the road this afternoon though…