Photographic meanderings

I’ve begun culling images for my book, “Ancients on the Edge of Forever”. Sometimes I’ll find something that just rings like a bell, and I’ll mark it for inclusion even though I’m trying to keep this task to just marking images for rejection. This is one of the former images.

Posting is going to be very light as I work on my project. Currently I’m working on a Kickstarter promotional video, and am trying to secure an ok to use a specific piece of music. I’m also working on the book itself, because I don’t want to sit idle while waiting for other things to progress.

When I used to do counted cross stitch, I learned that working full-bore linear on a massive project lead to burn-out, and that it’s important to have smaller projects at the same time. Completing a small project gives you a taste of satisfaction, and that can provide impetus to continue working on the larger project.

I spent the night in the parking lot of the Grove of the Patriarchs, deep in the White Mountains of Eastern California. This was my last shot of the night.

This was taken in 2007, at the Grove of the Patriarchs, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Inyo National Forest. Available as a print $20 8×12. PayPal accepted! That includes shipping and handling.

Of all the places I’ve been on the Eastern Sierra, one of the best wasn’t in the Sierra at all. The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is in the White Mountains, Inyo National Forest. This particular tree is in the Grove of the Patriarchs, and is no longer living. Even as a splendid corpse it has incredible value as part of a dendrochronology that is over 10,000 years.