Following a tip received earlier in the day, Ivi drives us out to find a sunflower field on the road to Union. Finding that another photographer is shooting a model there, plus not having driven an appropriate off-road vehicle, we content ourselves with some sunset views using the time-honored tradition of Windshield Photography.
After two hours of walking about downtown this morning, I returned convinced that the outdoors is no place to be until the wildfire smoke has abated. So, continuing my exploration of old negatives that have never previously seen the light of day, I found this January 1974 view of Malibu after fire and rains.
Then, a few days after that shot was made, I made a business trip to Washington, DC, but first stopped off in Davenport, Iowa where my brother was working as a newspaper reporter and living with his wife and young daughter, Gabrielle. Here, I photograph him during that visit as we encounter the bleak Iowa landscape.
Came upon the negatives from a roll of film shot on a cold, windy day in the winter of 1974. I think this was the San Pedro jetty and Cabrio Beach, south of Los Angeles. Typical of a day of shooting with my photographer friends. My old photography partner, Bill, appears in several of the photos.
