My Weekend

Saturday was a fun day that kicked off at just before 7am at a Visitors Centers in the town of Joshua Tree. Once we had all met up and signed in we headed into Joshua Tree National Park for a long, full day of photography with an instructor. We got to go to some weird and wonderful places that are generally not accessible to the public. Then towards the end of the day we took a hike with all our gear to a place called Ryan Ranch. It was built in the 1890's by the Ryan family and today is just ruins of it's former self due to vandalism and natural deterioration. One of the more interesting things we saw at Ryan Ranch was 3 graves that are placed nearby with the year 1897 painted on the rocks above them.

One of the people in the class with me was Elsa, our accountant at work, this is her photographed above. It had been a long day and the tiredness from the hiking through the desert and an early start was beginning to show for all of us. Unfortunately for Elsa, she sat still long enough that I got to photograph her.