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American Southwest - Day Whatever

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This trip was did not go exactly as planned. In fact, it wasn't planned at all. It happened spontaneously when an unexpected space of three weeks opened up so the chronicles of this trip seem to be going in fits and spurts, and now is going to take a detour altogether. I took a picture, my first large format ever, on the way down to Nevada in SE Washington. I was hoping to get a good picture of Palouse Falls, however, that did not happen. What did happen, was an amazing quality of light that was illuminating a fairly modern and working grain elevator. I was a little reluctant, because how cliche can you get when using an old 4x5 graflex camera with a 70 year old lens. I spent the night near hear, and then headed for  Eagle Cap Wilderness, the Steen Mountains, and the Alvord Dessert. This part of the trip was planned, but there just wasn't a lot of picture taking going on. I also ruined 4 negatives from this part of the trip because loading and unloading, exposing, and storing 4