Last Couple from the road trip home.  The Ranch House Cafe was on a stop somewhere past Roswell, NM.  A few buildings and the sign was all that was left of this road stop.  The cafe looked like it was out of commission for the better part of 10-15 years.

The old cabin was along the route home, had to shoot from the car because the wind storm that was coming in was pushing 40mph + winds that made getting out of the car not a hot idea.  Unless I wanted to have my teeth whitened by sand blasting.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film.

So traveling home from TLS I decided to head to New Mexico and cruise around to see what I could find.  And I found Encino, NM.  Neat little place with some of my favorite subjects old building and signs.

First place that caught my eye was this abandoned Post Office.  Great part, it still had a working mail slot.

Just down the street was an abandoned motel with and I quote “Lo Low Rates”  Probably why they went out of business.

More from the road trip home tomorrow…

Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Yep, you guessed it.  It is a BIG rock in the middle of Texas.  This place was a great stop on the TLS a lot of different scenes all in one place.  The rock formations themselves are wild.  Layer upon layer of rock just bulged up out of the ground and has slowly been eroding back down to earth over the past couple 100K years or so.  To me it looked like I was standing on a pair of Volcanic Cores, but I was schooled in the ways of Texas geography and am better for it now (Thanks Jeff!!)

Captured with D700 24-70f2.8 on Lexar digital film

From last weeks amazing time at Pedernales Falls.  Had a fair share of some serious technical difficulties as of late with my computers, but I am typing this post on my new new and improved computer, so hopefully no more problems.  And if you haven’t been over to his blog since he got back home you need to head over to Jeff’s site and see some of the spectacular photos he captured while we were out and about.  More to come sooner than later from the trip.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 w/ Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter

Finished in Silver Efex Pro

So they say everything is bigger in Texas, and right now the wildflowers were just going off full tilt.  Jeff took us out to a place that had more wildflowers in a 100′ area than I had seen all year back home.  The varieties were amazing and the colors were great.  I got a chance to take my 105f2.8 VR out for its first trial run and boy did it not disappoint.

Pretty sharp considering the wind was blowing like crazy while we were out there.

This one was hand held at f13 to get the depth of field I wanted.  Hand held in DX mode to get a tighter crop.  ISO 400 to help with the wind.

Captured with D700 105f2.8 VR on Lexar digital film