Given current world events I’m glad to be in a place with no radio stations or cell phone coverage and few people. Arrived mid-morning, and have spent the day hanging out near a remote canyon on the western side of the valley and then testing out the new camera — first impression is that the Canon Elan 7 is a camera I would highly recommend to any 35mm photographer. After the sun set I put on the running shoes and went out for a run on the salt flats, although apparently they got rain here in the last week and given that the salt flats are the lowest point in North America there was still a lot of water that hadn’t yet evaporated, making it tough to find good footing.
Death Valley was hot and sunny today (surprise!), and for whatever reason I’m sunburned more on my left side than on the right — if you remember “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” I’m doing a pretty good impression of the main character at the moment. All I need is to start building sculptures of Devil’s Tower and there will be no doubt that the mother ship is on its way…