Scoutng Nelson!

Jack and I got out early this morning, 5:00 a.m. and drove the 30 minutes down to Nelson.  We were rewarded with great early light and some fantastic subjects to shoot.  We needed to get to the location and see what time the sun actually rose over the mountains, Nelson is in a pretty deep valley!  We are really pleased, not only is the light great, (same weather all week), but the owners have made some great additions and it really makes the property even better!  They completed an old time garage and it was a great start to the day.  See below.

The Teddy Bear Cactus, looks fuzzy but is also called jumping cactus because it is so easy to get bitten by it!!!  It sure was great for framing the old  Chrysler below.

Tomorrow morning we will take our group down at 5:00 a.m. again and they will get their first taste of this great Ghost Town.  We will make at least three trips to Nelson, a trip to the neon Museum for some late light and twilight, lit Neon shooting, and a trip for an afternoon shoot at Red Rock Canyon just North of Las Vegas.  We are based in Henderson about 20 minutes south of Vegas.  No Elvis sightings yet!

Here is some spectacular rust on an old car!  More to come!

Blessings,

the pilgrim

Photo Note:  All images with the Fuji XT-1 and the 18-135 OIS WR   (the lens I said I wouldn’t be buying, sure glad I did!)