Bodie And More

I went to Bodie State Historic Park yesterday, which is a place where I’ve always wanted to go to photograph for the longest time. Bodie is a ghost town in a state of arrested decay high up in the eastern Sierras that was gold boomtown in the late 1800s and early 1900s. After going there yesterday and making over 150 images, I know I’ll have to go back, perhaps on a weekday when less people are there, to get more images. I would rather have my images more “natural looking” to Bodie in its time period, and having people in modern dress blows that look and feel I focused mostly on the exterior buildings, and the next time I want to focus more on what’s inside the buildings.

After going to Bodie, I went down to Mono Lake since I was so close to photograph some of the tufa, but with time running short, I couldn’t stay long. I’ll have to go back and shoot it more when I can spend the majority of a day there. Both shooting Bodie and Mono Lake were life goals of mine, and I’m glad I got to go, and I look forward to going back, knowing now what to expect from both places and how to approach them better next time.

The images of Bodie can be seen here. While there aren’t a lot of them up as of today, I will be posting more in the future. I really have a lot of images to process.