Two Guns

Depending on your point of view, you could call this site along Route 66 historic or an eyesore, but photographers call Two Guns a great photo opportunity. This just one of many remnants of a tourist stop during the heyday of Route 66, and the graffiti only adds to its appeal to photographers. Like many areas in Arizona it has a bloody past- you can read about it HERE. Lonnie and I spent a couple hours exploring the area with my photo group and never ran out of things to point out or photograph!

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Trees in the Rocks

One of the places we visited on our Route 66 trip with my photo club was the Little Painted Desert (outside of Winslow)- an amazingly beautiful spot. I was entranced from the beginning by the creases and folds in the rock formations that looked like tree branches to me. And of course the colors were spectacular!

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Old Will

Now Presenting Old Will, an 80 something year old resident of Bodie- back in the heyday of this old west mining town.

The photo comes from my trip to Bodie last October, and I created Will himself with the help of AI! This has been a fun departure for me! I think I was putting on my genealogy hat as I created (in my mind) a backstory for this old guy, including farming in Michigan, a sojourn in Colorado mining for gold, and then his later years spent in Bodie with the family of his son, Luke, who was living in Bodie.

Above is Old Will, sitting on his front porch- and below is his son, Luke, striding purposefully through Bodie.

I have created some other members of the family- less successfully, I think. For me, Old Will is the star of the show. I have abandoned the project for now, and am currently creating clip art with AI for the newsletter I do for my photo club.

All photos are my own. Each image contains a character I created with Microsoft Bing Image Creator.

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