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

So I took the new gear out for a spin yesterday to get used to it and to make sure I worked out the kinks before heading to Texas for Jeff’s Texas Landscape Safari.  I took a road that I haven’t been down in I don’t know how long, but I am happy I decided to head that way.

Came across a huge grouping of California Poppies to start of the trip.  All this and I forgot my macro

At this top of the hill was this great tree.  Made of a great conversion to Infrared B&W

Great mailbox about 2 miles from the flowers.  I can’t believe all the stuff I was finding on a 5 mile stretch of road this point.

Found this guy hanging out at the barn below.

It was a great trip and this wasn’t all I caught.  Over at the Life @ 50 project you can see what else I caught and I have a few more posts coming up in the next few days to show off a bit more of what I found.  Had a lot of fun with an old tractor I found that I did a Single shot HDR on.

Images Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 and 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Alrighty, well what can I say except howdy, and sorry for the delay in posting on the regular blog.  Been busy getting ready to give a talk to some 8th Graders about photography.  But luckily my good friend Kevin gave me a call on Saturday and asked if I wanted to go shooting out and about. Me not being one to refuse an offer like that grabbed the gear, and headed out the door.  We stopped in a little town about 30 minutes North of my hometown at first which ended up being a great place for last week’s Life @ 50 project.  After that, we headed a bit South and stopped in at another town that had some nice abandoned industrial areas that had some fun shooting possibilities.  Here is a bit of what we captured:

Old double layered brick wall near the main plaza.

Main flywheel on an old conveyor system that is out and rusting nicely in the elements

On/Off switch for the same conveyor

Hydraulic controls for an old overhead gantry system at an abandoned railroad dock

Busted light at the loading dock.

All in all we only shot in the area for about 30 minutes but it was a great time and a definite GOYA exercise

Captured with 1D Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 II on Lexar digital film

Finished in Silver Efex Pro

Howdy,  hopefully this finds you recovering from a great Thanksgiving holiday.  I know I ate so much turkey I think Tryptophan is now permanently embedded in my DNA.  However, fighting through the turkey induce dazed I managed to go get a bit of shooting in, and had a good time.  I decided to give myself a 2 day project.  This is the some of the results from the first day.  I wanted to photograph only abandoned things (Buildings, Cars, etc…)  The first day didn’t yield to much, but scoping out some other sites I think my 2nd day may be more productive.

The two building above sat across the street from each other.  The lower one had a fire that burned through it not too long ago.  The other with the old Pharmacy sign was being re-purposed into a restaurant, but was still not open for business.

This old 1 room house sat near the edge of a major highway.  I have no idea how long it had been there, but time had just forgotten it.

Captured with 1D Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 on Lexar digital media, all finished in Silver Efex Pro