Gillette, WY
We woke up this AM in Powell and discussed our options with regard to the shoot last night. Ira feels he needs more contrast in the hills - the rain and the lack of moonlight detracted slightly from his vision. So he’ll probably head back in Friday when the moon is fuller and try it again.
We had breakfast at the same cafe we at at last night. The funny thing is, every time we walk in the entire place seems to stop and stare at us as we progress to a table. I mean, three guys with big cameras and smiles shouldn’t be that off-putting, but we sure feel like aliens from space. We need to get some sleeveless T-shirts, Wranglers and Bass Pro Shop ball caps and we’d fit right in. I kid, I kid.
After breakfast (good!) we dropped off my car at Tom’s (the Jeep fella) and headed over the Powder River Pass to Gillette to photograph another piece of the story. Enroute, we stopped at an airplane museum (closed, sadly) but we snuck onto the adjacent airfield and took some pictures of four aging aircraft - including two Royal Canadian Air Force cargo planes.
We also stopped outside
of Emblem, WY because the sign on entering was this:
Finally, after checking
into the hotel and doing some research on our
intended target, we dropped Ira off to do some
guerrilla scouting/shooting. Here he is as he exits
the vehicle - the
exit-from-the-moving-vehicle-commando-style exit I
suggested wasn’t taken as seriously...
Tomorrow we head back
over to the archelolgical dig for some pictures of
the kids/professors working out there. I’m pretty
excited as it sounds like quite an interesting site.
Cheers!
PS. Why is it that cheap hotels in the middle of
nowhere can have better wireless internet access than
the big hotels I stay at (and pay $10-20 a day) in
the big cities? Wireless in nowhere Wyoming is
awesome.