Abandoned Series Update
I realize that this is the first time a lot of you are hearing about the abandoned series Dustin and I are doing, so this will really be more “Breaking News!” than an update.
We make the drive from San Diego to Las Vegas pretty frequently. We’re there at least once a month for First Friday, and other shoots and family visits bring us up even more often. We took a trip down old Route 66 and were blown away by the amount of abandoned structures along the way. Towns that flourished before Highway 40 was put in died out pretty quickly and thoroughly after it was complete and drew traffic away.
Last December we stopped at the towns of Amboy and Ludlow to shoot some of the buildings. We got a lot of great material, and decided that we wanted to flush the series out and shoot as much of the Mojave as we could for the series. On our way to First Friday this month we stopped at Rock-a-Hula, an abandoned water park, and spent a good portion of the day taking pictures of it. On the way home we stopped by the largely-abandoned towns of Goffs, Essex and Chambless to get pictures. Each shoot has been more exciting and breathtaking than the last.
Our goal is to shoot more of the towns off of the 40 near Barstow, and flush out an entire “Abandoned Mojave” series. We’re really excited and we’re getting close to being finished! When we are done, we’re going to put together a coffee table book as well as prints!
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