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| White Mesa with Walking Rain. Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. |
Approaching Teec Nos Pos on the Navajo Nation I looked northwest
and was rivetted by a glowing white mesa and shards of walking rain. Three images
of the magic light stood out. One emphasized the mesa. Another favored the
walking rain. One gave them equal billing. Here is White Mesa with Walking Rain.
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| Frontier Drive In. Center, Colorado. |
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| Sangre View. Center, Colorado. |
On one of many visits to the vast San Luis Valley over the years I drove to the village of Center, Colorado. The impetus was a photograph of the Frontier Drive-In that I’d seen in a Denver Post years before. I Googled it and found it was nearby. So, I drove north from Alamosa on Highway 17. The short drive to Center rewarded me with two great subjects. First, the drive-in was an iconic and charged subject for a kid of the Fifties. The birth of rock and roll, Molly Potter, and drag racing on 56th Street between Tempe and Phoenix are memories as vivid as Technicolor. The bonus of the visit to Center was a graveyard of trailers that glistening against the snowcapped Sangre de Cristos beyond.
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| Presbyterian Church. Taiban, New Mexico. |
As to Presbyterian Church, Taiban, New Mexico, a decade ago as I drove east on US 60 the sky was monumental above the plains of eastern New Mexico. Standing tall beneath the sky was the proud clapboard church, circa 1908. This is from 2017. As pleased as I am by my efforts eight years ago, I crave a reshoot especially of the graffiti inside. After all Edward Weston photographed Point Lobos hundreds of times as has my Carmel friend, Rupert Chambers, who shoots Point Lobos, Big Sur and environs every day of his life. He never tires of his slice of paradise. Who am I not to follow in their footsteps. Familiarity breeds, I contend, not contempt but intimate knowledge of a place, its moods, its light and points of view at all times of day and in all manner of weather. That’s the intimacy I feel for El Norte and the desert Southwest.
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