Thanks all.
No, Terry. It was my D3. I haven't shot large format since the early seventies when I still had a darkroom. I made this shot in Colorado in 2008 on our way down to Florida on back roads.
And Rob, There was a time when this
was my thematic specialty. In the late sixties and early seventies I was shooting the last of the stuff I put into
"Voices on the Prairie" as it disappeared before my eyes. In 2006 I spent a couple three and four-day outings cruising southern Colorado, northern New Mexico, west Texas, and western Kansas, shooting just this kind of thing. And yes, nowadays it's almost impossible to find this kind of thing, especially in Florida.
My two loves are street and wabi sabi, not necessarily in that order. On balance I couldn't care less about landscape photography because that can be done much better in paint. But photography's apparent veracity (and yes, you guys over in The Coffee Corner can have fun arguing whether or not the veracity is real) gives it an edge over painting for human interactions and structures.
