baja in widescreen mode

I found this carcass on the road to abreojos that still hasn't been paved. It's some of the driest desert on the peninsula. After trying to get it right from several directions I tried the widescreen mode on the camera and liked it very much.

Probably a road kill:




Dry desert mud:





The expanse is limitless:

Igor,

Those are just fantastic pictures! Looks like you were on the salt flat road. Where were you?

Just showed the pictures to John, and he agrees, just wonderful.

BTW--Have we told you how lucky Alex is to have you as a father? He is having the best education ever.

When are you coming back to BA? Our surf fly fishing son uses Gulp when he takes our 5 year old grandson fishing---would love to have you around when he visits. Besides, I would love some photo lessons.

Diane

This is the section of the old road just inland of campo rene. Perhaps it is part of the salt flat but I can't imagine the tide ever getting this high. It's totally featureless. Flat as a pool table without a plant in site. But I find it visually restful and exciting at the same time.

Glad to hear your son likes surfishing. I hear it's addicting.

I hope to go to Asuncion next summer and see you guys. I'm not sure I can teach you anything about photography. There are rules and suggestions I suppose, but mostly you just react to something and keep playing with an idea until you somehow convey it. Here's a shot I took yesterday at Monashka Bay. The place is incredibly beautiful. There many shots that are very similar. This is as close as I got to the feeling I had.

It is flat

Glad you asked. Just a word about Kodiak.

It's a very moody place. When the sky is heavily overcast you get downright depressed. However, when the sun breaks through there's a sense of elation like very few places I've been. They talk about 'liquid sunlight'. I don't know what it means, but I know when I see it. The light is out of this world. It's celestial. The sort of light that passes through the windows of the great cathedrals.

The first shot is another angle on the fisherman pursuing pinks with emphasis on the water this time:





The following is looking at the headlands on the same beach at the same time. Notice the quality of that water.




The following shot was taken in the tidal waters just inland from the beach.




The last shot is a bit less moody than the others. It's a morning shot I took at the mouth of the Buskin river.




Hope you enjoy these images. They were all taken the last morning before my flight left for the lower 48.

Natalie, Ken, and Diane,

Thank you for the kind words and am glad you enjoyed the pictures. When people like my work it's just as pleasurable for me showing them as it is seeing them.

To be quite honest I wasn't sure this is the sort of thing nomads like. At first I thought that the images were a bit posed (stilted - is there such a word). Then it occured to me that the subject just wasn't baja. I have learned that nomads like pictures of places they know and pictures that tell a story.

So with that it mind I'm including one at Morro Santo Domingo. It's Alex setting off from the lighthouse to the beach far below in pursuit of corbina and halibut.