Posts Tagged Route 66

Two more days on the road – driving home from Vegas

20 April 2009

This blog entry is a little late but, you know, better late than never right?  These photos were taken during our drive back from Las Vegas in February.

-DeAnna Dimmitt

Dry Heat Photography

dhplogo5

wayback1scenic Lake Mead

wayback2suspension bridge over Hoover Dam

wayback3Looking down from Hoover Dam

wayback4

wayback5

Hoover Dam chipmunks.  I had no idea that hundreds of chipmunks inhabit Hoover Dam.  They hang out in this driveway where the staff parks and people feed them.  I wished I had brought my real camera out of the car because the mini-cam focuses so slow that it is practically impossible to get any sharp photos of a high octane chipmunk.  While most of my shots were of the sidewalk after the chipmunk was long gone, I did get a couple of lucky shots.

wayback7

wayback82 Guns, Arizona

wayback9Yep, there it is

wayback10

wayback11

Rick at the bunny rodeo

wayback12

wayback14The smart parked side by side with a Prius for length comparison

wayback15“Root” 66

On The Mother Road to Seligman, Arizona

1 March 2009

These shots are also from Day 2 of the road trip to Vegas.  Second stop on the Route 66 tour: Seligman, Arizona.  To view the complete Mother Road collection click here.

-DeAnna Dimmitt

Dry Heat Photography

dhplogo1

seligman1

seligman2

seligman3

seligman4

seligman5

seligman6

seligman7

seligman8

seligman91

seligman10

On The Mother Road to Askfork, Arizona

1 March 2009

Here are some of my shots of Day 2 of the road trip to Vegas.  First up on the Route 66 tour; Ashfork, Arizona… what’s left of it anyway.  To view the complete Dry Heat collection of images from The Mother Road click here.

-DeAnna Dimmitt

Dry Heat Photography

dhplogo

ashfork1-11

ashfork2-2

ashfork3-3

ashfork4-1

ashfork5

ashfork6

ashfork7

Day 2: On the road from Flagstaff to Las Vegas

22 February 2009

February 15, 2009

We did a lot of stopping to shoot on Day 2.  There are lots of good places to shoot Route 66 between Flagstaff and Kingman. I should note that the photos in this post are just the fun shots off the mini cam. The “real” shots will come later as we will put quite a bit more effort in to the post production of those images. For any perspective brides who may be reading this, you haven’t been misinformed; we really do specialize in wedding photography, this is just a brief hiatus. To view more wedding photos just click WEDDINGS off the list of categories to right.

dhplogo9

trip2-111dscf24082dscf2410Williams, AZ

trip2-2Ashfork, AZ

trip2-3Ashfork, AZ

trip2-4Ashfork, AZ

trip2-5Seligman, AZ

We had to drive through a muddy field to get to this motel.  The Electronic Stability Control kicked on but we didn’t get stuck!

img_8289Seligman, AZ

Watching this guy take pictures of the smart with his phone.

img_8357Big Horn Sheep near Hoover Dam

trip2-6Hoover Dam

trip2-7

trip2-8

trip2-9

trip2-10

img_8370

img_8372rsFor $1.oo Pappy will tell your fortune.

trip2-11Apparently they sell used license plates at Hoover Dam

trip2-12

trip2-13Lake Mead is a man-made lake; the direct result of Hoover Dam

trip2-14Hoover Dam is 700 feet tall.

trip2-15

trip2-16

img_84061

trip2-17

Construction is underway on the new and terrifying suspension bridge. Once the bride is complete travelers will no longer be able to drive over the actual dam like they do now.

trip2-18These photos really fail to convey the true scope of how large everything is.

trip2-19This photo is looking down the front of the dam. It may not look that high but it’s 700 feet!

trip2-20Spoil sports

trip2-21

img_8428