I have never been good at carefully keeping track of my photographs and negatives, until the digital age. Back in the age of film photography, in this case in the early 1990's I attended three photographic workshops with a photographer from Arizona. He took us to really interesting areas. One year part of our trip was to the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range. There was an important archaeological area that was a buffer around the bombing range and so the US Air Force was required to allow visitors during certain periods. There were a group of maybe 14 of us, many who were using 4x5 view cameras as I was. We camped for a week in the desert areas, one of which was the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Area, which is right on the border with Mexico. I am sure that now that would no longer be possible because soon after that trip, they shut down The Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument because of migrants using those areas to come across the border to the United States. It was a great trip, though. I found some negatives in my darkroom today and this was one of them. Man, who is the cool dude with the aviator sunglasses?
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