Category Archives: desert
God & The Devil In The Land Of The Sun
Cirios I’m part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895 and rode it all the way down to Guanajuato looking for his American dream. Not a penny … 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
The Salt Mines
Western Salt Works, Chula Vista California In November of 1996 while driving around California on a magazine assignment I came across the Western Salt Works at the southern end of San Diego Bay. From the beginning I’d been interested in … Continue reading
Up High In Mexico
Tecate Peak, Southwest Slope, Baja California Fifty miles from my photo studio is the Tecate border crossing. To get there, take California 94 away from … Continue reading
Panum Crater, Mono Lake California
As recently as a couple of hundred years ago the volcanoes surrounding Mono lake were spitting fire and molten rock. Some of that thick, slow-moving lava formed the Panum Crater on the shores of Mono Lake. The lake – if … 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
Mysteries of the Mojave
God & the Devil in the Land of the Sun Deserts are lonely, beautiful places that share a kind of kinship with one another. The Sinai, Baja California, Death Valley all collect the faithful, the misunderstood and the broke. Even … 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 