In 2007 my wife Kay and I road our BMW 650 dual sport motorcycles from our home in Edmond, OK to Pagosa Springs, Colorado and back, mostly on dirt roads.
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I saw this cool, weathered wooden sign on a dirt road in central New Mexico and thought it would make for a cool black and white film picture. I took the photo with my Toyo View VX-125 film camera on Ilford Delta 100 pro film and developed it in Kodak D76 developer. I actually took […]
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It is crazy what I find when traveling along dirt and gravel roads in strange places. I ran across a really nice ranch with several cool statues out front, including this cool bear carved out of a tree stump. A perfect sign for the New Mexico Back Country Discovery Route, which was originally planned as […]
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There are a lot of roadside memorials along the backroads of New Mexico. It seems quite common to build a memorial for a loved one. There are so many along the roads, I am not sure that all these people actually perished at these spots. Maybe family just wanted to memorialize them somewhere? I don’t […]
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After my mother passed away after her battle with breast cancer, I decided to take an extended weekend trip in our Jeep Wrangler to tour the New Mexico Back Country Discovery Route. I didn’t have enough time to do the entire route, but picked up the route near Roswell and headed north. I brought both […]