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An intersection near Salvation Mountain in Slab City, California. It's a place that started out as a cooperative endeavor where people could live in peace and be as creative and weird as they want to be. I suspect it has become too much of a tourist attraction.
If you spend enough time wandering the dirt roads of the Palouse....the gems of those back roads sometimes reveal themselves.
This place is a gem hidden in the NW corner of Glacier National Park. There's a campground and a few cabins, but you almost have to stumble on to it; it's extremely remote. However, it has the best pastries and baked goods in the state! Really. And there's hot coffee, showers and a restroom too. There's nothing else for miles and miles.
Developed Darktable 3.6.0.
This place is totally off the grid no electric, no water. The couple who put this place together lived here for two years while saving their money to buy and refurbish a farm house.
Near Salvation Mountain was Patriot's Point. The place looked abandoned when we were here and it could be because the person that lived here passed away recently. Patriot Bill created this location to honor veterans across the world. He himself was a vet from the Vietnam war.
I saw a video online where he talked about wanting to create a museum here to honor war veterans. He also had some trailers that he rented out to people that wanted to visit. Of course, almost everyone here also accepts donations which I'm sure is a main source of income for most that live here full time.
The clear water of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park last week was a pleasure to see and photograph....
"He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief cornerstone." Acts 4:11
A shortened and converted school bus sat in the parking lot of Wal-Mart as I was leaving. I parked a short distance away and exited my vehicle to take a few photographs. After several shots a bearded fellow came loping out. I have been looking for a way to revitalize my photography, and what better way than the way it all began..... 100 Strangers.
The fellow pressed some pebbles into my hand and introduced himself as Eugene Hensley from Jamestown Tennessee. Eugene's mission in life is Jesus Rock Ministry. He offered me more stones, including the larger ones that surrounded his bus. He had painted them and inscribed prayers on them. On each of the pebbles Eugene had pressed into my hand he had written Jesus with a marker. "giving these is the greatest gift of all," he exclaimed.
Eugene lives in his bus with Jody his parrot and many five gallon buckets of pebbles. He keeps Jody's stall warmed with a candle, calling it his hillbilly incubator. He informed me he had traveled to Louisiana to bear witness at one of the local churches. I asked him to be part of my 100 Strangers project and he was happy to oblige.
Thank you Eugene, you are the 170th stranger in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
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"He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief cornerstone." Acts 4:11
A shortened and converted school bus sat in the parking lot of Wal-Mart as I was leaving. I parked a short distance away and exited my vehicle to take a few photographs. After several shots a bearded fellow came loping out. I have been looking for a way to revitalize my photography, and what better way than the way it all began..... 100 Strangers.
The fellow pressed some pebbles into my hand and introduced himself as Eugene Hensley from Jamestown Tennessee. Eugene's mission in life is Jesus Rock Ministry. He offered me more stones, including the larger ones that surrounded his bus. He had painted them and inscribed prayers on them. On each of the pebbles Eugene had pressed into my hand he had written Jesus with a marker. "giving these is the greatest gift of all," he exclaimed.
Eugene lives in his bus with Jody his parrot and many five gallon buckets of pebbles. He keeps Jody's stall warmed with a candle, calling it his hillbilly incubator. He informed me he had traveled to Louisiana to bear witness at one of the local churches. I asked him to be part of my 100 Strangers project and he was happy to oblige.
Thank you Eugene, you are the 170th stranger in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
mamiya 6MF 50mm f/4 + kodak portra 160. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: lenstagger.
slab city, salton sea, in california is a colony of sorts. artists, snowbirds, loners, individualists, spiritualists are camped out in a community where everybody seems to be getting along quite fine, and i dare say much better than "civilized society."
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Thank you so very much Jocelyn gorgeous.
Thank you for the honor and trill to have my picture as the group`s cover.
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Slickrock formations in upper Antelope Canyon, Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona
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Off-the-grid systems are designed to function without the support of remote infrastructure, such as an electrical grid.The term off-the-grid refers to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more public utilities.
I spotted Mitch's converted Jeep Cherokee easing down the road and I followed it a mile or so until he turned into a laundromat. I stepped out of my own Jeep and complimented Mitch on his rig and introduced myself.
Mitch told me he was visiting from Colorado where he lives in the mountains. His Jeep is a miniature home with a stove, bed, shower, and several extra wet cell batteries to help power everything. Mitch told me he has been living off the grid for a little over six years. He plans to remain off the grid.
We shot this and a few more photographs across the street in an empty bank parking lot. Bank One to be exact. Shortly after we began, a bank employee came out to tell us they could not open the bank with us in their parking lot. I told her OK but I could tell she was agitated. So we returned across the street to the laundromat. Once the bank opened, since I had an account there, I went inside. I withdrew five hundred dollars in one dollar bills. Then I went through the drive through and redeposited it. Domari Nolo.
Thank you Mitch for being the 195th stranger in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
Went four wheeling in a very off the grid area north of Tucson, Arizona on the backside of Mount Lemmon with one lane wide dirt roads as far as the eye could see. So grateful that our hosts could recall the way home. I would have had no idea how to navigate back to civilization and needless to say we had no connection to technology that could have helped to guide us. Enjoyed amazing views of mountains all around us including the Galiuro Wilderness area in the distance (40 miles away) with Mount Graham's snowy peak of almost 11,000 feet visible to the left.
Happy New Year! I appreciate the support from everyone here on Flickr and wish you all a great 2025.
This is one of my favorite photos from 2024. A rare summer storm rolled through in August bringing a few days of showery weather. I came through just as it was breaking up. Lucky timing. For a sense of scale the two small black "dots" on the lower left are vehicles.
If you want to check out more of my fav photos from the year, you can see them here: www.adrianklein.com/gallery/2024-photography-rewind/
I am a "certified" (or certifiable) wine geek, so I taste local wines wherever I go. Hands down, Rune Wines wins the prize for the most unexpected yet striking location. It is in the high desert 60 miles south of Tucson, Arizona, at an elevation of 5000 feet, and completely off the grid (note the solar panels). Yet the wines were interesting and worth the trip, and the high desert views are incredible.
Salton City, California
I found myself in lovely La Quinta, California for the past week on a vacation my wife booked for us. I'm not the sitting around type, so while she laid by the pool I went and did dirty desert stuff..
Interesting sets of photos to follow.
These are on the side of a really busy road. While I was walking down to shoot them a guy that I used to work with and that I haven't seen for a long time stop to say hello. He said "you're walking down here to shoot the powerlines". He thought I was crazy and he might be right.
This one is for all of you who love some power line porn.