Moon – Ken's Photography and Travel Blog

After our morning shoot at the Hot Creek Geothermal Area, we returned to Alabama Hills, with no clue about where to shoot at sunset. So we drove around looking for someplace inspiring our imagination. We failed with the inspiration and finally settled upon the location for the movie Gunga Din, simply because we had no more time to scout around.

There are still a few remnants from the movie set, where a bridge had been constructed over a ravine.

I don’t know how these gears were used, but there were at least a couple of these embedded in or near the roadway.

There were some concrete items, which I assume were anchors for the bridge, in some of the rocks near the roadway.

I wandered around the area looking for potential sunset shots, finding little inspiration, but I did get a few images that I liked.

And that’s it for this shoot. We have a plan for tomorrow morning, so stay tuned to see how that works out.

Ken

After a day of browsing and walking around in Ouray and Telluride, quaint, old Colorado tourist towns, we had dinner in Ridgway. I had hoped to be able to rush up the highway toward or over the Dallas Divide from Ridgway, after dinner for sunset photography, but we were a little late getting out and the service was slow at our restaurant. By the time we finished dinner, it was too late to go anywhere. Arriving back at our lodging and resigned to having lost my opportunity for sunset photography today, I hoisted my camera backpack, grabbed my tripod and camera and began to walk into the lodge. Then I noted golden sunset light on the nearest mountaintops. So I jogged down the road past the inn to get past other buildings, power lines and trees to try to get into a location to shoot the rapidly changing scene before the light faded away.