i like this shot because of the arrows.
this was taken several years ago when the "motel" sign on top of torches still existed.
torches motel sign by _RedShoesGirl_
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i like this shot because of the arrows.
this was taken several years ago when the "motel" sign on top of torches still existed.
back in 2007 the color tv sign was still intact on top of the Welcome Traveler Motel sign and the property was well maintained.
Looked like it was apartments with trees and little barbecues.
just a few years later it was trashed with dump trucks, trash bins, crap cars.
Makes that entry into barstow on Old Highway 58 look like shite.
CLEAN IT UP! and no suspicious fires, ok?
in honor of earth day i found a new location with a cool old building to photograph.
it's almost dark ... the last of the setting sun giving me the quintessential burst of light so beloved by photographers.
through a window quietly setting
april 22, 2025
barstow/mojave desert
canon 5D III
24-105mm
After Dark: Barstow project
Barstow Industrial on old highway 58.
april 22, 2025
canon 5D III
24-105mm
sometimes it takes me years to actually stop and photograph an unusual sign. HA!
B&B Plumbing & RV on old highway 58.
this business seems to have been established in 2001.
i want to go inside, it looks so interesting.
the desert landscape is dry. only things i saw blooming was the occasional beavertail cactus and a non-native radish out in hinkley.
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I finally got to drive on Route 66 in California, specifically in a place called Barstow. It's a sleepy, little run down town, the kind where you would expect to see Jack Karouac and Neal Cassady step out of a 1940 Plymouth, and into a beat shack filled to the brim with Buddhists and jazz musicians. I made this infrared image at the Route 66 Motel on Main Street, a thoroughfare long on malt liquor and short on half and half. Coffee was difficult the next morning, but by 10:00 AM we were On The Road, bopping eastward to Arizona and an adventure in Sedona.
Camera: Nikon D300 (Infrared Conversion)
Lens: Vintage 20mm Nikkor
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old Divine's Market in the river bottom neighborhood of barstow.
i love the abstract quality of the doors and old building.
at the end of my saturday afternoon drive around barstow, calif., the end of paris street and this lonely, rusting roadside memorial, a desert descanso festooned with billowing pink flowers.
there was no info, so rest in peace unknown wanderer.
a lovely car pulled by two locos sitting in front of the harvey house this afternoon. for more info on this unique rail car:
april 8, 2025
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it's been almost 3 years since we lost the el rancho motel in barstow to an inferno on july 5, 2022.
a few painted signs remain and the iconic large one which looms over the vacant lot between williams and main street.
lensbaby, sweet35 optic
it's been almost 3 years since we lost the el rancho motel in barstow to an inferno on july 5, 2022.
a few painted signs remain and the iconic large one which looms over the vacant lot between williams and main street.
lensbaby, sweet35 optic
