Category Archives: Cabo San Lucas
Panteón de Santa Rosalillita – Baja California
Something about Mexico is best left unspoken. It’s clear, almost obvious. To an American traveling south looking into death’s steady gaze can be unsettling. Best not to linger too long while the winter sun drops below the coastal range. Ray … Continue reading
The Land That God Forgot – Part Two
El Progresso, Northern Baja California – December 1998 Driving through Mexico in the winter is something I’ve done all my life. Traveling on highway D-1 brings to mind the classic topics of life, death, creation and eternity – mainly because … Continue reading
En La Playa
The first time I saw the beach where the big Sheraton is now parked near Cabo San Lucas, there was a 100′ Japanese trawler sitting on the rocks, Lyndon Johnson was in the White House and there wasn’t a single … Continue reading
Decomposed Granite
D.G. is geologist’s shorthand for decomposed granite – a technical sounding name for the state of solid rock on its way to becoming sand. Coarse and sharp, D.G. makes beautiful, deeply textured beaches. The sand grains are so big they … Continue reading
Cabeza de Ballena
Cabeza de Ballena Point There’s something beautifully uncorrupted about Cabeza de Ballena. Even though it sits in the middle of all the hotels between Cabo San Lucas & San Jose Del Cabo, it’s wild. In a distracted moment you could … Continue reading
Central Baja California
I spent most of today sorting through B/W negatives and old scans updating the Mexico section of my website http://www.johndurantphotos.com and in the process relived some of my forty year relationship with Baja California. Continue reading
Field Notes: John Durant Photographer 