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From the "Things you find in the Desert" files, I bring you this...whatever it might be called?

#Travel #RoadTrip #Art #Desert #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of several sun bleached animal skulls (deer, horse, bighorn sheep). The skulls are on the ends of a group of poles that were setup in the shape of a tepee. There's the top of a nearby brush covered mountain in the bottom left background. The sky is particularly dark from processing and the white skulls stand out sharply against the dark sky.
#art #photography #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #desert #roadtrip

The Gerlach, Nevada, "Red Neck Weather Station." There use to be one on the edge of town, long before the Burners showed up. This much newer weather station is on the unofficially named "Guru Road" along the edge of the Black Rock playa.

#Travel #Roadtrip #Desert #Photography #Darktable

A rock hangs on a thin rope from a very weathered tree branch stuck in the ground. The landscape is light tan-brown winter sagebrush. A mountain is nearby in the background. The sky is blue with some wispy clouds. The brown rock slap at the base of the tree branch with the rock reads, "If rock above is moving winds blowing, wet it's raining, white snowing."
#photography #travel #darktable #desert #roadtrip

Berlin, Nevada (3/18/2025).

(It's a 1918 Dodge Brothers truck.)

#Abandoned #GhostTown #Desert #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable

A color landscape photo of a large, very weathered, wood building on a nearly barren hillside. The building was a machine shop. The windows and doors are long gone. The front of the building faces toward the left. Outside, n front of the building, is a large rusted machine with two large gears that look like spokes in a wheel. On the right is a very weathered early pickup truck. It has a rusted chassis, hood , and fenders. The cab of the pickup is wood. Like the building behind the truck, its windows and doors are long gone. The sky is clear and very blue in the high elevation.
#photography #travel #darktable #abandoned #ghosttown #desert #roadtrip

Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park, Minden, Nevada.

#Travel #RoadTrip #Abandoned #Transportation #Photography #Darktable

A color portrait photo of a weathered wooden wagon wheel. The hub of the wheel is on the right and the wagon is behind on the left. The is in very good shape, but the wood is weathered to a beautiful light gray. A rusty iron tire protect the outside of the wheel. The hub is held together with two rusty iron bands. The wagon behind the wheel is mostly hidden. The wheel fills the frame. But the wagon wood is the same gray as the wood of the wheel. The wheel sits of short dry grass.
#photography #travel #darktable #abandoned #transportation #roadtrip

The Union Pacific Big Boy, an articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company in 1941. Here, the Big Boy was crossing a trestle as it headed west into the Feather River Canyon of California (7/11/2025).
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(And for @Ali, it was crossing the Middle Fork of the Feather River.)

#Travel #RoadTrip #Train #Railway #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white portrait photo of a large stream engine crossing a tall railroad trestle. The back ground is a deep ravine of forest covered slopes. The train is about to complete its crossing of the trestle. It is head toward the bottom right of the frame. It has two small headlights that are tuned on. Steam comes out from the lower right side of the train. Black smoke pours out over the top to the train. A young girl is in the bottom left taking a photo of the train as it exits the trestle.
#photography #travel #blackandwhite #train #darktable #railway #roadtrip @Ali

The Union Pacific Big Boy, an articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company in 1941. Here, the Big Boy had just crossed the East Branch North Fork Feather River and was parked waiting for a VIP passenger (7/11/2025). I really couldn't have been in a better spot. I thought it was just going to roll by at that location. When it stopped, I thought, "For me?" Lol!
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#Train #RoadTrip #Travel #Railway #Photography #Darktable

A color landscape photo of a very large steam engine. The engine is stationary just as it cleared a bridge. The rest of the train is still on the bridge. Another bridge can be seen crossing under the upper bridge where the tr5ain is on the left. The train points toward the right. Whisps of black smoke come from the front smoke stack. It has a small US flag on the right front and a California flag on the left front. A forest is seen in the background.
#photography #travel #train #darktable #railway #roadtrip

The Union Pacific Big Boy, an articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company in 1941. Here, the Big Boy was crossing the Truckee River as it entered Nevada from California on 7/14/2024.
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(Revisiting some old photos. It was great fun chasing this train for four days.)

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A color portrait image of a very large steam engine that has just exited a metal bridge structure over a river. Forest is seen in the background. The engine is approaching the viewer, exiting the frame at the lower right. A big brass bell is seen at the top of the tubular black boiler. A small US flag is on the right corner of the engine and a small California flag is on the left. A small pile of railroad ties lies on the gravel railroad bed in the lower left.
#photography #travel #train #darktable #railway #roadtrip

The Union Pacific Big Boy, an articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company in 1941. Here, the Big Boy was headed west out of Winnemucca, Nevada, on 7/9/2024.
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A black and white landscape photo of a very large black steam engine in a desert landscape. The engine is heading toward the right side of the frame. It is very long, with two sets of drive wheels. The tender car is behind the engine and a small section of a passenger car can be seen behind the tender. Sagebrush is in the foreground, and dimly, through the haze, a mountain range is seen in the distance. A round, railroad crossing sign is seen just ahead of the engine on the right. It is filled with bullet holes.
#photography #travel #blackandwhite #train #darktable #railway #roadtrip

Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 meter (130ft) telescope near Big Pine, California (10/13/2025). The big 40m instrument is owned and operated by Caltech. It is mostly used to observe over 1800 blazars in support of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

#Astronomy #AstroPhotography #AstroPhysics #Radio #Telescope #Science #Travel #RoadTrip #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of a very large radio telescope dish. The dish sits on a single pedestal. It points up and toward the right. Sagebrush is in the foreground and a large mountain in the background. Big clouds in the sky frame the outline of the telescope's four pyramidal feed support legs. The cloudless part of the sky is very dark as if a red filter had been used.
#photography #science #astronomy #astrophysics #travel #radio #astrophotography #blackandwhite #darktable #roadtrip #telescope

Goldwell Open Air Museum, Rhyolite, Nevada (10/15/2025).

#Travel #RoadTrip #Ghosts #Art #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A square black and white photo of a sculpture at night. The sculpture appears as a person in a long white flowing cloak. Think classical monk with the a long hood that covers the face. The ghostly figure is holding on to a bicycle as if it were going to mount the bike and ride off. The sculpture is fairly well lit but the bike is shadowy. Otherwise, the rest of the frame is black.
#art #photography #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #ghosts #roadtrip

Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California (10/16/2025).
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A black and white landscape photo of a barren desert hillside feature. The hill is completely barren and appears to be made of a fairly fine grain light colored material. The hill has many eroded valleys and crevasses. The top of the hill, however, is a very dark material adding contrast between the top and the rest of the hill.
#photography #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #desert #roadtrip

The Last Supper (1984) by Belgian artist, Albert Szukalski.

(Goldwell Open Air Museum, Rhyolite, Nevada, 10/17/2025. This was a single frame. No AI or compositing was used.)

#Travel #RoadTrip #Art #Museum #AstroPhotography #Astronomy #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable #NoAI

A black and white landscape photo of a line of statues depicting Da Vinci’s painting, The Last Supper, only these figures are white ghosts. The photo was made under the night sky with the Milky Way shooting up from through the center of the photo.
#art #photography #astronomy #travel #astrophotography #blackandwhite #darktable #museum #NoAI #roadtrip

Silent Sunday.

#UFO #Aliens #Travel #BlackAndWhite #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable

A black and white portrait photo of a statue of a thin extraterrestrial with large egg shaped eyes holding a round flying saucer like disk above its head. The underside of the disk has strange geometric shapes. The sky is processed to a dark gray to add contrast.
#photography #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #aliens #roadtrip #ufo

Is sign Saturday a thing?

#Travel #RoadTrip #Sign #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo that is a view looking up toward a barbwire fence at the top of a hill. A bit of long grass is seen in the lower right. Then the fence and a clear blue sky in the background. A very old sign is on the opposite side of the fence on the right. It is a wood rectangle about three feet long by one foot wide. It is mostly gray from weathering but there is evidence of white paint. In very faded black lettering it says, "Hogland, General Store, Est 1920."
#photography #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #roadtrip #sign

I love Carnegiea gigantea so much! 😍 🌵 I wish I could hug one...

#Desert #BlackAndWhite #Travel #RoadTrip #Botany #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of a desert landscape on the side of a rugged rocky hill. The rugged hillside is covered in woody creosote bush and tall saguaro cactus. Many of the cacti are just single trunks, but a cluster of them in the upper left have multiple arms. The sky is a dark gray due to processing.
#photography #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #botany #desert #roadtrip

The Grand Canyon & the Kolb Studio, which was begun in 1906 by photographers Emery & Ellsworth Kolb. The Kolb's were hardcore canyoneers. They carried their early--big & heavy--photographic equipment all over the Canyon. Sadly, the building is now a gift shop & the Kolb brother's history has been relegated to a tiny closet featuring a couple of their photos & a short video about their lives.

#Canyon #Desert #History #NationalPark #Travel #RoadTrip #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of the Grand Canyon. The view shows the Grand Canyon at center left under a dark gray sky achieved through digital processing as though a red filter had been used. The canyon is wide, deep, and very rugged. A small part of the Bright Angel Trail is seen in the lower left. On the right is a multistory building perched on the edge of the canyon. It has dark gray walls and white trim. It probably has five or maybe six levels. Trees surround the building and cut across in the foreground of the photo from the lower left to upper right.
#History #photography #travel #blackandwhite #darktable #desert #nationalpark #roadtrip #canyon

Grand Canyon, Arizona (11/4/2025). That's the Bright Angel Trail in the background.

##Desert #Canyon #Travel #RoadTrip #Trees #Botany #Photography #Darktable

A color landscape photo of a cliff in the Grand Canyon. A finger of rock protrudes out from the left to center frame. It cliff it forms shows many horizontal layers in the rock. On the flat top of the finger of rock are two small round trees. They are brightly lit in sunlight. In the background shadow is a much larger cliff face but there is a switchback trail coming in from the left and descending down into the canyon.
#photography #travel #darktable #botany #trees #desert #roadtrip #canyon

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