Mike Olbinski Photography
We Are Here
(Looks even more abandoned by clicking to view in lightbox. It also may help finding the title of the image a bit easier)
Saturday was awesome. I mean, yes, the agreed upon meeting time was 3:45AM...but it was still all kinds of fun.
Pretty much all on time (except for me who needed some Tums after a harrowing night of America's Tacos, Killians Red and ice cream), my buddies Ken Peterson, Rick Young and Chris Frailey met me up at Carefree Highway and I-17, ready and geared up for an all-day, epic adventure in northern Arizona. The plan was to hit the ghost town of Two Guns around sunrise, shoot random stuff all morning, eat lunch and then trek out to Grand Falls for the afternoon.
And that we did and it was fantastic. Had a blast hanging out, shooting, goofing off, making fun of each other and generally being in photography heaven.
This image above looks nothing like a ghost town, although it's definitely not been lived in for awhile. The structure belongs to an old motor home camp site that was just a few hundred feet away from what remained of Two Guns.
The thing about northern Arizona are the wide open, beautifully blue skies that mix with gorgeous clouds. I rarely shoot a landscape when there aren't clouds involved and I loved the way these kind of framed the "A-Frame" structure. Like my shot on Monday of Grand Falls...this image was made possible by my handy-dandy circular polarizer.
(exif: canon eos 5d mark ii, tamron 17-35mm 2.8, 17mm, f/13, iso 100, 1/80 sec)
We Are Here
(Looks even more abandoned by clicking to view in lightbox. It also may help finding the title of the image a bit easier)
Saturday was awesome. I mean, yes, the agreed upon meeting time was 3:45AM...but it was still all kinds of fun.
Pretty much all on time (except for me who needed some Tums after a harrowing night of America's Tacos, Killians Red and ice cream), my buddies Ken Peterson, Rick Young and Chris Frailey met me up at Carefree Highway and I-17, ready and geared up for an all-day, epic adventure in northern Arizona. The plan was to hit the ghost town of Two Guns around sunrise, shoot random stuff all morning, eat lunch and then trek out to Grand Falls for the afternoon.
And that we did and it was fantastic. Had a blast hanging out, shooting, goofing off, making fun of each other and generally being in photography heaven.
This image above looks nothing like a ghost town, although it's definitely not been lived in for awhile. The structure belongs to an old motor home camp site that was just a few hundred feet away from what remained of Two Guns.
The thing about northern Arizona are the wide open, beautifully blue skies that mix with gorgeous clouds. I rarely shoot a landscape when there aren't clouds involved and I loved the way these kind of framed the "A-Frame" structure. Like my shot on Monday of Grand Falls...this image was made possible by my handy-dandy circular polarizer.
(exif: canon eos 5d mark ii, tamron 17-35mm 2.8, 17mm, f/13, iso 100, 1/80 sec)