around the Bend

AROUND

the BENDPHOTOGRAPHY BY GORDON MCGREGOR

AROUND

the BENDPHOTOGRAPHY BY GORDON MCGREGOR

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AROUND

the BENDPHOTOGRAPHY BY GORDON MCGREGOR

All images and text copyright © 2009 by Gordon McGregor. All Rights Reserved.

For Amanda

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Do my SoFoBoMo book during a vacation in West Texas. We’d been before but there were a host of places I hadn’t seen or photographed. I hadn’t accounted for the temperature being over 110F for a few of the days. Nor did I really consider camping in that heat, or staying at B&Bs without air–conditioning.

West Texas is beautiful. A harsh, hard country but beautiful. You might have to work to find it, getting up before the sunrise, pushing through brush that cuts, scratches, pricks and tries to hurt you at every turn, but there is peace and beauty to be found out there. It’s said that if it isn’t trying to stick, prick or bite you, then it is probably a rock.

These pictures were taken over the course of a week, driv-ing Amanda around the (Big) bend. I’m ever thankful that she puts up with me and my crazy notions when waving a camera around.

heading West on IH-10 IH-10, Fort Stockton

Murphy’s pizza, Fort Davis outside Fort Davis, on the road to Balmorhea

McDonald Observatory Ten Bits Ranch, Terlingua, by moonlight

dawn in the Davis Mountains first light, Davis Mountains

honeycomb store, Fort Davis on the road between Terlingua and Alpine, 113F in the shade

Balmorhea state park Balmorhea state park

Balmorhea state park Davis mountains scenic loop

outside Valentine, Tx outside Valentine, Tx

on the road to Big Bend moonrise, Chisos basin

first light at Dugout Wells, Big Bend national park Chihuahuan desert and Chisos mountains

Kosmic Kathy’s Kowgirl Kafe breakfast at Kosmic Kathy’s Kowgirl Kafe

bingo and bbq corn Paublo Menudo at la Kiva, Terlingua

Terlingua graveyard outside Terlingua

the Gage hotel, Marathon Tx and Stonehenge II, Hunt, Tx Stonehenge II, Hunt, Tx

All images edited with Adobe Lightroom.Set in Museo.