That feeling you get when you just scored tickets to the reopening day at Disneyland!
Disneyland reopening day!
Category: Photography
Sailing the Salton Sea from Bombay Beach.
The owners of this cat took it for a sail across the Salton Sea from the shores of the abandoned but not forgotten Bombay Beach marina earlier this week, a most unusual sight, to be sure.
Desert Shadows and Light.
Having some fun photographing this building under the bright desert sun. I think I want to try it again with a tilt-shift lens.
Spotted in the wild: The 1953 Jaguar
Spotted this exceptionally beautiful 1953 Jaguar in the wild. Powered by the Jaguar Type C engine. 3.4L DOHC 12-valve I-6/200 hp @ 5,800 rpm, 220 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm. She’s the real deal.
Desert X 2021: The view of Mount San Antonio
The view of Mount San Antonio, commonly known as “Mount Baldy,” as seen from the DesertX 2021 art installation titled “What Lies Behind the Walls” by artist Zahrah Alghamdi.
Desert X 2021: The North Face x Gucci Pit Stop
To celebrate their collaboration and support of Desert X, Gucci and The North Face created a stylish geodesic dome to serve as the dedicated Pit Stop for visitors to Desert X 2021. This installation is covered in patterns from The North Face x Gucci collection, using different materials that relate to landscapes, travel and exploration.
Located in downtown Palm Springs, The Pit Stop is located in close proximity to a number of hiking trails in the area and just steps away from the Palm Springs Art Museum and the entrance of the Cactus to Clouds trailhead, a challenging 19.8 mile point-to-point trail featuring soaring Coachella Valley vistas.
Red Label 100s
Desert X 2021: “What Lies Behind the Walls” by Zahrah Alghamdi
Zahrah Alghamdi’s monolithic wall is comprised of stacked forms impregnated with cements, soils, and dyes specific to the California Desert region.
She expresses a highly individualized language corresponding to feelings, cultural identity, memory, loss and emotions associated with this place and time.
Her laborious and meticulous process involves assembling particles of earth, clay, rocks, leather, and water to draw on the notion of “embodied memory.”
Desert X 2021: “The Wishing Well” by Serge Attukwei Clottey
Serge Attukwei Clottey’s massive installation was created using woven pieces of recycled yellow plastic Kufuor gallons once used to transport water in Ghana.
“As repurposed relics of the colonial project, they serve as a constant reminder of the legacies of empire and of global movements for environmental justice.“
The Wishing Well refers to the wells to which many people around the world must trek daily, sometimes many miles, to access water.
Desert X 2021: “Never Forget” by Nicholas Galanin
Nicholas Galanin’s “Never Forget,” his massive 44-foot-tall sign exhibited at DesertX 2021, is inspired by the original “Hollywoodland” sign built in 1923 that still stands in Los Angeles today as the infamous “Hollywood” sign.
