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Oct 07
in Desert, Featured Images 0 comments tags: california, mojave desert

Featured Image: Zzyzx, California

Stepping onto the playa, Zzyzx, California

Stepping out, Zzyzx, California

Everyone who’s driven from LA to Las Vegas knows where Zzyzx is, right? You can’t miss the mysterious exit sign on the freeway heading for Baker, and eventually everyone stops or detours at least some distance down the dirt track there (well, almost everyone). And like everyone else, I’ve been there and done that (a bunch of times), and have the pix to prove it. Just like everyone else.

So I wasn’t really looking to take another photo of the place when I visited it (again) with a friend of mine earlier this year. And in any case, the light was poor — all those high clouds washing out the wintry light and making for a bunch of missed opportunities. And then my friend stepped out briefly onto the playa (wearing a green scarf on her head because she’d left her hat in the car)…. It’s a striking image — that small black vertical figure striding purposefully away from you on and into a harshly-textured, mostly-horizontal, and almost monochromatic landscape.

I didn’t take a lot of other photos that day.

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Hamish Reid is a photographer and videographer living in the Jingletown district of Oakland, California. He is Hamish Reid Photography on Facebook.


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