The American Southwest II: 35mm color slides

At long last, my second installment of photos and tales from the 2012 Southwest trip with Kate. Above, Utah state highway 261 just south of 95, after the snow. An excerpt:

We headed west toward highway 261 in search of views and on the way to our anticipated stop for the night at Mexican Hat, on the border of the Navajo Nation. The snow came down so hard and fast it was nearly impossible to see the road and I was stuck at about 20 mph for half an hour or so. When about an inch had fallen, the snow stopped as suddenly as it had started and the sun came out, melting the snow on the roads almost as fast as it fell. It nearly skipped the liquid state and turned into billowing steam.

Denver sunsets never cease to amaze!

Medium-format photos from the Southwest

In April, I took a road trip through the Southwest with Katchabird and took along a bunch of cameras. I had a wonderful time and got some good frames, like this one looking back down at the entrance road in Colorado National Monument.

I used Kodak Portra 160 film in my Yashica-D TLR camera for these. I already loved the camera; these just made me love it more.

Rainbow II

Taken with Hipstamatic, John S Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash.

Rainbow III

Taken with Hipstamatic, Tejas Lens, Pistil Film, No Flash.

Cloudy Country

Watts Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic.

The Ranges of the Rockies

Taken with Hipstamatic, Lucifer VI Lens and BlacKeys SuperGrain Film, no flash.