Riding the The Empire Builder East A Journal of a Train Journey From Seattle To Chicago 1/23/2012 - By John Wood 4:45PM Seattle, WA Waiting to launch… Edited to include the first 40 or so minutes in 1:30. Time-lapse launch of the eastbound Empire Builder. Sound is of the actual train, recorded separately. 5:30PM Edmonds, WA [...] Read more »
My Lens – Fire Demon Stares Back.
This was one creepy southern Illinois campfire. It doesn’t take much imagination to see the clear face in this fire. This is one of the early images of a face that persisted for about two hours in a large fall campfire. It gets stranger. I have video of this same face. At one point in [...] Read more »
My Lens – Red Cliffs Castle Valley Utah
Red Cliffs Castle Valley Utah Taking what I thought was the long way to I-70 ended up being the pretty way. After a leisurely hour driving alongside the Colorado River, we came upon this large resort ranch and some deer crossing the road. Stopping to take a picture down the road, I could not miss [...] Read more »
My Lens – Grand Canyon Lipan Point Afternoon
The Grand Canyon, Looking West From Lipan Point Late afternoon on a smokey summer day at Lipan Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Smoke from distant wildfires cast an eerie haze over on an otherwise bright day. Lipan Point is closer to the Desert View entrance to the Grand Canyon. Lipan Point offers extraordinarily wide views to [...] Read more »
My Lens – Route 66 Untraveled in Arizona
Abandoned Route 66 roadway north of Meteor Crater, AZ An old section of Route 66, lies unused, near the exit to visit Meteor Crater, Arizona. In the distance you see Mt. Elden, near Flagstaff. Interstate 40 may be the main route across this section of the southwest, but there is still plenty of historic, two-lane [...] Read more »