Arizona
In
early spring, 2006, I joined my NYC camera club on a field trip to
southern Arizona with the intended subjects being wildflowers and ghost
towns. Unfortunately, the lack of autumn rains the previous October led
to a lack of wildflowers so we concentrated on several ghost towns, the
most prominent being Ruby along the Mexican border, a late 19th and
early 20th Century mining town. The population, once 2000, has shrunk
to a caretaker and a few hardy souls, and the buildings continue to
slowly deteriorate. We also visited Chiricahua National Monument, Mount
Lemon,
Parker Valley Ranch. Saguaro National Park, Tombstone and its OK Corral, Boot Hill in a
snow squall as snow fell on the cacti and tombstones and several other
small ghost towns. Experimenting at times with a gold and blue
polarizing filter, some of the images in this gallery represent colors
not necessarily true to nature. Nevertheless, they interest me and I
hope they and the others interest you as well.
