While looking at my weston dunes book, I decided, to finally shoot them. Got everything together. The only camera gear was the new fuji XT-1 and the V-8. I decided to limit my lenses to 2. Since I got it not too long ago, the Kern dagor was for sure going to be one. The other was a 240 Calter ll N in a prontor shutter. I took this optimized lens out of the arial camera mount that it was in when I bought it at boing surplus. Man I miss that place. Left Seattle and was on my way. Spent a day working my way down the hum-bolt area coast. Got to Oceano in time for sunrise. WTF, where's the #$^*( dunes. They're all back dunes now. I then went next south to Guadalupe that had a small patch you could shoot with a telephoto. If I drove this far to get skunked, I'm not going to make the other half of the plan for white sands. Another time. worked my way across calif towards the grand canyon. Went across Death valley at night. shot an afternoon, sunset, and sunrise at the canyon. Drove over to Bryce canyon.Sunrise and worked my way back home. I took a tent and a sleeping bag that were up to the task, but here it is 7pm dark and 37 degrees. Time to set up the tent. When I get it up there is nothing to do but go to sleep as you are not going to visit with anyone when you are the only one there. Now going to bed that early means I'll be done about 1am. What am I going to do? Get up and pack it up or lay in a bag for the next 5 hours till light. I chose option 3, turn on the heater, lay back the heated seat and sleep in the car. When I saw the snow in the campground, that was the one night I used the plan for one night in a motel. 5 days and 3920 miles. Great trip had a great time, but I should have come hear first, announced my plan so someone here would have given me a heads up. Who would have ever thought nature would change in 75 years.
P.S. The wind was such that the canyon was as clear as it was a century ago.
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Originally Posted by Leszek Vogt
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