Red Bluff 2022

Spent the weekend on a ranch in Red Bluff, a cattle town near the California Oregon border. I never carry a top-tier camera system, mostly because the environment might not be too kind to fragile electronics. 

In spite of its lack of coverage, I carried my cell phone, which I used for the first and second photos. I make no excuses for the odd (to my eyes) color rendition. In spite of that, I hope you get some idea of just how vast the landscape can be.

The roads are not paved in some areas, and the going can be rough in some stretches. They seem to stretch from sunrise to sunset, metaphorically. It rained the day before. and we were actually see  tiny wild flowers making their first appearances.

These two photos was taken with a Nikon P7000. This was the original  homestead for this 3,000 acre ranch.  It lacked electricity (the solar panels were damaged by vandals) and potable tap water. In other words, it was an indoor camp with a real bathroom. It was cold this weekend, and we relied on a modern iteration of a wood burning stove to stay warm. It generated enough heat for the sleeping portion of the house, although it required re-stoking midway through the evening. 

I was playing with using a small flash to light my foreground subject while attempting to maintain the rich colors of the twilight sky. The Nikon P7000's quirkiness is starting to get to me. I am seriously considering getting a higher-end point and shoot for times like this when I photograph in hostile (camera-wise) environments. I'm feeling that life's too short to put up with equipment that just makes you angry.