Alaska - Wild Honey Camera Department

From my recent trip to Alaska...See more on the Wild Honey Camera Dept. blog.

1982 FXB - Detroit to Los Angeles along the Texaco Trail

Normandie

Canadian Rockies...

Landscapes are usually a bit of a snooze for me, but once I saw this stuff in front of me, I just couldn't help it.
In any case, we flew into Calgary and made our way to Banff to stock up on some proper clothing and Red Bulls. Unfortunately, the rental car was all wrong for these epic mountain roads. A 68 Mustang 3 speed would have been better...but more about that car in an upcoming post.
Anyway, it was probably for the best that we had some heavy white and painfully slow SUV - drifting thru one of these curves like a slot car is fun for sure, until you come up on some Bull Elk at full throttle...

Montana: Stand by...

Sorry kids, I tried getting this series going, but I'm leaving town again in the morning...
Back in a few days...
Ok for now.

Algonquin: Showdown with Sasquatch

It was almost three in the morning when I finally fell asleep the first night in my screened in logging tent. Strange and menacing sounds, unknown to me, where all around me...The bastards had surrounded me!
I'm not talking about the boogie man or any sort of made up freaky little fruitbags - hell no - this is Big Foot country, and I was in his back yard!
The forest was alive and the foul musty odor of the beast was getting stronger. We were hostages in our own tent. But we had one weapon - we had fire. Well, I had my zippo, some candles and a carton of smokes...

It was all nonsense, of course, but so what?
Turns out it was just a bunch of Bull frogs and a baby Moose...

Algonquin: The Good Life

So, as I mentioned in my earlier post, I've been off the grid for 2 weeks. And when I say "off the grid" I mean: no internet, no email, no cell phone, no television...
That's right buster, I'm not some amateur dilettante!
We bathed in the lake, ate by a fire, told stories (mostly lies) and slept amongst the beasts.

HassyLA.com - Road Trip

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Last weeks trip to Phoenix started out normal enough. I went through my regular checklist when going on the road - but there are special requirements when the desert is involved. Water, blankets, rubbing alcohol and a pair of latex gloves were added to the mix.

I got off to a late start; try finding a gun on a thursday morning in Hollywood...(but that's another story). Once I hit the freeway and got out of the treacherous LA traffic, I set my cruise control to 100mph to make up for some lost time. But by the time I hit Palm Springs, strange things where starting to happen... Menacing clouds, rainbows and a foul odor were surrounding me. I realized what had happened right away and pulled over before things got ugly. I keep a bottle of ether in the car (just behind the drivers seat), to prime the carburettor of my vintage motorcycle. While packing the car, I managed to knock it over and it slowly started leaking into the carpet. Anyone who's been around ether can tell you that it will turn you into a complete lunatic in no time...

My memories of the next part of the trip are extremely hazy...Rotten stuff!

Tire Repair - Pena Blanca, New Mexico

Happy New Year

New Mexico part3

Tent Rocks National Monument

New Mexico part2

So I went back to shoot the same location again after we got some light snow...
This time I brought the Horseman camera.

New Mexico

I got the Nikon F3 fixed...these are the first pics with it.
Sorry for the cheap Walgreens negative scans...

Mano a Mano on Hwy 86

Fear and Loathing...

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"
-HST-