sorry i’ve been super lagging on updating my blog. :( there’s so much going on right now and i want to post about all of it, and i can never catch up with myself!  also, coming up we’re taking our annual family spring break road trip on the east coast this year, and i’m super excited about all the photographic opportunities ahead. :)

last weekend, a couple of us ventured into the far eastern deserts of california to shoot the abandoned beaches of the salton sea.  the shores of the huge saline lake are littered with deserted motels and trailer parks, remnants of a bygone era when the salton sea enjoyed huge popularity as a lake resort.  exploring the vacant trailers was like walking into the past–retro clothes and dated magazines strewn everywhere, and you’re left trying piece together the stories of the people who once lived there.

i had too many favorites from the shoot, so i think i will be posting them all somewhere eventually, but here are a couple:

forgotten railroads and red mountains make the desert an eerily beautiful place

the sand was littered with salt-encrusted dead fish

someone had made a beautiful windchime of broken glass bits

“today, the skies are painted colors of a cowboy’s cliche…”