Greetings from Hudspeth County, Texas

I have been working through my images captured five years ago on my circumnavigation of the contiguous US. Some I've been uploading to Saatchi Art, others I'm keeping private for my Patreon subscribers.

What became very apparent with the latest batch is how totally inspired I get on a forty mile stretch of I-10 in western Texas.

I-10, West Texas, digital watercolor printed on various media, available on Saatchi Art
©2019 Anne M Bray

Here is one in the original 53 Edge images (and it was the only "out the side window" view that rendered well in the 2014 version of Waterlogue:

West Texas, digital watercolor printed on aluminum, 4 x 6"

 ©2014 Anne M Bray

2019 version:

I-10, Western Texas, digital watercolor printed on various media, available on Saatchi Art
©2019 Anne M Bray

This image, (which I'm only posting here):

I-10, Mesa, West Texas, digital watercolor printed on various media, ©2019 Anne M Bray

Is compositionally very similar to this chalk pastel from 1994:

I-20, West Texas, pastel on paper, 18 x 28" (unframed),

©1994 Anne M Bray

In 2014, I drove through at the perfect time, with the sun stating to set and the shadows growing long.

I-10, Western Texas Sunset, digital watercolor printed on various media, available on Saatchi Art ©2019 Anne M Bray

Backtrack to 4.4.2014: Panama City to Fort Myers, FL

Super 8, Panama City, Florida, digital watercolor
link on Saatchi

Fishing Lures, Crum's Mini Mall, Panacea, Florida, digital watercolor
Saatchi link

Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Tampa Bay, Florida, digital watercolor
link on Saatchi

Food:
Breakfast: complementary yogurt from Super 8 (vile)
Lunch and Dinner: leftovers

Shopping: 
Crum's Mini Mall

Backtrack to 4.3.2014: New Orleans, LA to Panama City, FL

This post has been stuck in "edit" mode for more than a year.
What was my road block?
I'm not sure -- maybe I ran out of gas and couldn't find my AAA card.

Anyhow.

As mentioned in the last post, Waterlogue now has a spiffy desktop version. I've updated a bunch of the original Edge waterlogues [for some art exhibition opportunities], and am now working on a new set and uploading them to Saatchi Art. It's been enjoyable having my head back "on the road". And perhaps the road block has cleared.

US90, Pearl River Bridge, Louisiana ©2019
Saatchi Art link

[click on images to embiggen]

Flickr photo album link
No dining links -- I ate leftovers.

A Brand New Waterlogue

The image is not new. The technology is.

I-10 El Paso / Cuidad Juarez, digital watercolor, ©2019

Compare to the 2014 version:

El Paso, TX, digital watercolor, ©2014

Waterlogue has improved over the past five years! There is now a desktop version, which is even better than the phone app [* I received a complementary copy of the software for being a beta tester].
I've decided to rework the 2014 On the Edge waterlogues and upload them to Saatchi Art, with the possibility to apply for The Other Art Fair LA, to be held September 5-8, 2019 in Santa Monica at Barker Hangar. The deadline is this coming Friday, so we'll see how far I get. Maybe I'll choose my favorite 25 for starters.

The original set (of which 41 remain) will travel to Troy, NY next month to be displayed at my 45th high school reunion!

Prada Marfa, 2014

 The duo behind Prada Marfa, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, are giving a lecture tonight in downtown LA.

I thoroughly enjoyed my stop at PM (which is actually 26 miles NW of Marfa in Valentine) during my 2014 road trip.

Here are some photos from 2014:

On the Edge "Out the Side" Time Lapses

I thought the Edge Brinno time lapse captures were a lost cause. [See this post].
Watching them as videos (which is how they're saved) makes me car sick!

Today, however, as I was scrolling through the beginning of the April 3 set frame by frame, I found some alluring images. Not a totally wasted effort at all! Instead of turning these into Waterlogues, as I had planned, I like them just the way they are -- after some cropping, that is.

Orleans Parish, LA 4/3 6:40am

Orleans Parish, LA 4/3 6:41am

Orleans Parish, LA 4/3 6:45am

Orleans Parish, LA 4/3 6:43am

Backtrack to 4.1-2.2014: Sulphur to New Orleans, LA and NOLA Rest Stop

Part 1:

Billeaud's Too
Flickr Album link
Blog link

Part 2, New Orleans:

Cafe du Monde
Acme Oyster House
Stanley's
Johnny's Po-Boy
Central Grocery
Swiss Confectionery
dinner?
Flickr Album link
Blog link
SpyGirl (Fashion) link

Backtrack to 3.31.2014: Sinton, TX to Sulphur, LA

Flickr Album link
Blog link

Backtrack to 3.30.2014: Eagle Pass to Sinton, TX

Day 4

Flickr Album link
Blog link

Backtrack to 3.29.2014 Van Horn to Eagle Pass, TX

Day 3

Prada Marfa
Chinati Foundation
Pizza Foundation

Flickr Album link
Blog post link

Backtrack to 3.28.2014 Eloy, AZ to Van Horn, TX

Day 2

Flickr photo album
My blog post here

Backtrack to 3.27.2014 Los Angeles to Eloy, AZ

I was supposed to keep a journal during my 2014 circumnavigation around the US.
This did not happen.
I didn't prep the pages in a timely manner, and all sorts of other excuses.

I am FINALLY getting it done and here is my first day's "journal", "memoir", whatever you want to call it. Not reducing the photos so you can click on them to embiggen and read the text.
[2019 update: Want to read the text typed? Read it on my Edge Patreon for as low as $1/month]

Links:
Flickr Photo Album
Connie's blog post
My 2014 blog post here

Greetings from 39571: Pass Christian, MS #MBsociallydriven

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US90 skirts the Gulf of Mexico and at Pass Christian it's right there, on the passenger side,
if you're heading eastbound, as I was.
I first photographed Pass Christian in 1995, on my way to an art retreat at The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA:

(before Katrina, with piers intact) 

The 2014 On the Edge US quick look: 

(These might not all be exactly Pass Christian. May include other Gulf towns west of Biloxi)

See more Mississippi Edge photos starting HERE in my Flickr album.

Linking up with Catherine's #SaturdayShareLinkup
Next stop? Alabama!

NOLA #MBsociallydriven

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Long time, no write!

I believe I have found a way to return to writing about my 2014 On the Edge trip and to perhaps maintain my interest in the task. Time will tell!

Mercedes Benz approached me with a fun way to "Share My City". << click on that link from your smart device and you can join in!

Here is my New Orleans:

My plan is to make more of these 5-image slide shows of my trip.
Five images, one zip code = mini slide show. (Hopefully not just sunrises from my motel rooms -- I have A LOT of those!)
I had left off writing about the trip at New Orleans, and I thought it'd be a good starting point for this iteration of the project.

Next up, April 3, 2014: somewhere between NOLA and Panama City, FL.

If you make your own slideshow, will you share it here? 
I'd love to see everyone's 9-second adventures!

X is for Cattle X-ing, Deming, NM

Anne M Bray, X is for Cattle X-ing, Deming, NM, 

Digital painting printed on various substrates in various sizes, ©2015 

X was a bit of a stretch in the A to Z Challenge. I fudged it a little here.

The location itself is interesting. It's en route to Rock Hound State Park, outside of Deming, NM. One is allowed to collect rock specimens there (hence the name), which is unusual for a state park. Enshrouded by the fog are the Little Florida Mountains, a major landmark as you drive I-10 between Deming and Las Cruces.