What's New

Creating from Impression, Communicating a Feeling

Tehachapi - Dan Beck -Digital Painting 2005 
Art Prints available by request only.

Over Thanksgiving, I had the wonderful opportuntity of driving from Salinas, CA to Phoenix, AZ and back. It was wonderful in that we were able to take a lot of old route 66 and see some incredible sights - so many in fact, that retaining them was next to impossible.

I like cameras and photography, but I prefer to not put the camera’s view in between what I see and what I create. It is just my way. 

The scene above, was the last truly compelling thing I witnessed (although not route 66)- coming down Tehachapi mountain with the sun setting and the vast view and some other world zigzag hill mountains that I couldn’t quite encode properly.

I have no photos of my own - and so far haven’t found the right area on the net, but that is not what this is about.

I am interested in communicating a feeling - a feeling of vastness, beauty, awe, color, and maybe my own smallness.

See Also

• Tehachapi Loop Photo Tour
  Get an idea of terrain and vastness - click photos
• CalPhotos - Berkeley Digital Library Project
  2 Photos of Tehachapi - right one has similar terrain