Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Not the Moon...

...or a Moon Lake but the San Luis Reservoir in central California, southeast of San Jose and way north of the L.A. basin.






This almost treeless environment in the searing heat challenges your eyes. It is difficult to look at; its austere beauty seems surreal.









This state is like that; it has so many places unlike anywhere else on the continent.









Some of them are familiar from Hollywood movies, so they resemble sets more than any type of real life place.









Others, like the San Luis, just make you feel as if you have stumbled into outer space somehow.












Days later, as you look over your photos, you still can't quite believe what you've seen.












It's just too strange and strangely lovely.

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