SouthRustern - Picacho, AZ

I don't get a chance to take that many sign shots and I'd wanted one of the Picacho Motel for years. Finally got it last spring.

It took me a long time to get the hang of a digital camera. After years of shooting b&w film and developing and printing my own shots (four of the paintings in the "Recent Paintings" sidebar are from b&w 35mm rollfilm), I finally got a digital camera in 2005.

I had to remember so many things that I didn't with film - like to just leave the damn resolution at full pixels and to cut the ASA down when shooting in bright light, how to fool the camera into focusing on what you want it to, how to fool the camera into metering a shot for what you want to highlight - on and on...

Anyway, this shot is back from before I just set the adjustment to max pixels and "pulled off the knob", so the resolution is low.

Shot right about here.

Picacho, AZ

Picacho Peak State Park is a park in the Arizona State Parks system, located between Casa Grande and Tucson near Interstate 10 in Pinal County, Arizona. Its centerpiece spire, Picacho Peak, is visible from downtown Tucson, a distance of 45 miles. The summit rises to 3374' (1028 m) above mean sea level. Though appearing to be the remnant of a volcanic neck, it is now believed to be a tilted and eroded piece of rock overlain by a lava flow. The place name is redundant: "picacho" means "peak" in Spanish.

-Wikipedia