sunny Union County III
fireworks on the fourth of July in Raton, New Mexico – and other odds and ends. Sunset over highway 64/87. A few test shots before the last of dusk. Perfectly clear skies at 6800 feet. 5 1/2 minute exposure. […]
sunny Union County II
more from my trip to New Mexico, home of thunderstorms and brilliant orange sunsets. It happens to be raining in sunny Union County. Fence post, and observer, at sunset. Orange skies are orange. I had not seen this sort of sunset since just after a thunderstorm in South Dakota in 2006! […]
sunny Union County I
a visit this 4th of July weekend to sunny Union County, New Mexico. Just a brief dash of a trip: 2500 miles in two days driving, and then two days spent there being lazy and taking pictures of bees. Sunny Union County is inhabited by huge bees. Little house on the prairie. […]
2011 Rand Review
Happened to check the local Wal-Mart after work today and found the 2011 Rand. Here are some of the changes: Symbology changes: Old style exit numbers have been replaced with a green box with white lettering, just like AAA Incorporated and unincorporated places are now differentiated by different town circles. Incorporated places are still the black dot with unincorporated places now being a hollow circle Subtle difference in the shields [...]
10005 total shield images in the gallery.
Just broke 10000 total photos. if you're wondering, the 10000th one is in this set of photos, from the 1967 50th Anniversary edition of Texas Highways magazine.
Route 66 with Kevin I
And here is the second day of the Route 66 trip. Same starting point – sunny Union County – this time even earlier in the dawn. Button copy in New Mexico is very hard to find. This example, on old US-66, might be the only one left in the state. What do we have here? Classic state-named US shields … put up sometime between September and November of 2009! In [...]
Route 66 with Kevin 0
Pictures of a trip from November, 2009. Kevin Trinkle and I poked around some of Colorado before taking a trip through New Mexico, down to Route 66, and eastward to Texas. Here is the first day, and it involves no Route 66 whatsoever. Just Colorado and New Mexico. Here’s sunset on the first day, on Johnson Mesa – New Mexico state highway 72 just east of Raton. […]
Iceland IV
Let us look at some Iceland photos from the fourth day, and even the unofficial fifth, as that was basically one morning of photos, and the rest of the time spent blazing our way back to the airport. A reflecting lake on a foggy morning. Blue skies, white clouds. High clouds with the fisheye lens. Sunset. The majestic body of water in the foreground is nothing but a small stream [...]
Iceland III
more photos from Iceland – here is the third day, including the legendary Puffin Road! Eighteen percent? That’s nothing – try 43% later in the day! Infinite regression of sheep. Strange tower at sunset. Behold the northern lights. From on top of a mountain pass, with a terrifying opaque fog creeping up behind us – we outraced it, and we got this perfect view! Green rainbow. […]
Iceland II
The second day of Iceland photos, from September of 2008. This is why they call it Iceland. Jökulsárlón – a glacial lake, with bits of glacier always breaking off and floating into the sea. This is the first thing in the morning. Clouds above Jökulsárlón, in the first rays of dawn. Dettifoss – the biggest waterfall in Europe! […]