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Our third day in California saw Mal Grant and I leave Joshua Tree before sunrise to do some early morning landscape shots before heading down to Salton Sea and meet up with Rebecca Pardue and V-Nixie for an afternoon shoot. Well that was the plan anyway. After our plan of driving through the middle of Joshua Tree was canned due to road closure we drove around the outside of the park and down to Salton Sea.

We then drove the entire circumference looking for a good location to shoot later that afternoon as the girls were on their way from LA to meet us.We soon discovered that all the cool old buildings and rusting trailers etc that we had seen in photos have all disappeared. They have either disintegrated or been torn down as it would appear a number of areas have recently been rejuvenated. So it was time for a Plan B as lots of dead fish along the shoreline wasn’t really going to work for some afternoon art nudes.

A quick google maps search revealed a nearby State Park called Anza-Borrego Desert and after checking out some google images of the area we knew that it was going to be far more productive. So we meet up with the girls and headed south west to the park. Our first stop was a dried up lake bed but as the sun was quickly dipping behind the surrounding hills, we didn’t have long to shoot before the whole lake bed was in shadow.

We eventually found another spot to shoot in the beautiful desert dusk light until it was too dark. We then said goodbye to the girls after driving them back to their car. It was only a short good bye for Rebecca as we will be seeing her again in Baja next week but we won’t be seeing V again this trip but hopefully she will be making her way down under to Australia sometime next year.

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