Salton Sea: The Knitty Gritty

(Eric Trine out for a stroll)

As you probably saw from my “teaser” post, I spent the weekend with a group of friends out in California’s most romantic dessert, more importantly the most envied spot of the olden days. The Salton Sea.

These pictures are a journey through this abandoned storm battered California Desert.

Shooting at this location was tough for me. I felt extremely cliche photographing something that has been photographed soooo many times before me. Never was it a goal of mine to photograph at this location, but as I began shooting I realized my goal: Not to photograph this desolate zone, but to document the interaction between human’s and this cursed land. And here my story begins.

(Jonnie Russell and Noel Sumner)

(Jonnie’s Boot and a salt preserved fish carcass.)

(Heather Trine,Desiree Giatan and Quyen Trinh)

(Scott Henning and Dave Hill try to escape a most certain splashing)

(Arrow Session)

(Jonathan Sklar making it happen on the make shift arrow range.)

(Chad Sheby and the Sheby dogs.)

(The Drunken bone head motocross guy post lame attempt to get out. Pre-Spilling gas in the pool.)

(Evan Trine got the “Bone Head Motocross Guy” on video I think)

(Eric Trine about to show off his vintage skate tricks, his wife heather (my best friend) looks on)

(I got the balls to jump in the 10′ pool with my camera to document these crazy Trine Brothers)

(Evan doing work.)

(a few 10 year old pro skaters took over the pool)

(Caught without the camera)

(next post: “Salvation Mountain”)

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