You can find all the info you want to know about the Mojave Road on this website http://www.mojave-road.com
B/W photos taken with the Pentax 6x7 with Ilford SFX 200 film, Red 25A filter and developed with Ilford DD-X
Driving the road thru the joshua tree forest
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Somewhere in Lanfair Valley, next to the bus I think
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This is on the Fort Piute Trail
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This is the Fort Piute Valley / Canyon, you can see the remains of the fort in the lower left. The was running water in the stream.
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Camped at Fort Piute
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Cool old corral
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Lots of petroglyphs along the way
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Joshua Tree forest
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Old cabin along the way
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The Lava Beds near the Lava Tubes, this stuff is really hard to walk on!
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Parked somewhere, can't remember but apparently I went for a walk...
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Enough black & white, here is some color stuff from the Nexus 7
Sunrise at Fort Piute
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Sunset at the Lava Beds
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My truck after Tom's friends got hold of it at night
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Nice old Native American trail
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I stayed an extra night so this was my last night's setup before going home
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Trying to catch the sunset reflection of Baker in my rear view window
![Trying to align the night sky of Baker with my truck window Trying to align the night sky of Baker with my truck window](http://www.darensefcik.com/Photography/Mojave-Desert/Mojave-Road-10-16-2014/i-W5jzf4T/0/M/img_2788_2014-10-19-M.jpg)
Red Spotted Toad
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More 'glyphs
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Tom at the old cabin
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Our caravan of vehicles
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The frog shrine
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Lots more photos of the trip are here on my gallery
Total Mylar Balloons this trip - 1 (not photographed)
Great pics. I've been wanting to drive this road for years. I even bought the manual. Didn't realize there were so many petroglyphs. That's a nice bonus. I love Ilford, but have never used it with a filter. Nice job on those.
ReplyDeleteHey Derek, you should do it, just take a weekend and go as fas as you can, it was fun. My friend also had the book, he had one of the very early versions that is quite different I guess then the newer ones. Lots of things to see along the way so be sure to stop and look around, you can always go back and finish the road another trip, that is what we will have to do.
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