by John Crane | Nov 5, 2018 | Art, black and white film, New Mexico, Photography
This past summer my wife and I spent a week in Santa Fe, New Mexico for our 24th anniversary. Having lived in Santa Fe for the first 5 years of our marriage it’s always a special time to return and reconnect with the ‘Land of Enchantment’ and... 
by John Crane | Nov 1, 2018 | Badlands National Park, National Parks, The F6 Project
Many photographers whose work I admire and respect flatly state you can’t do meaningful work in a new place you’re visiting for the first time. Others will hold sacred the idea of seeing a place for the first time; how nothing can compare to when your eyes... 
by John Crane | Apr 9, 2018 | Believeinfilm, black and white film, Boulder, Colorado, Film Photography, Medium Format
because this is, after all, a journal… (I don’t know why the image above is cropped like that… kinda drives me nuts. Below is what it should look like). Saturday – out driving around literally all day, looking for a photograph. I went to Denver... 
by John Crane | Nov 8, 2017 | American Southwest, Autumn, Destinations, National Parks, Pacific Northwest, Road Trippin', Rocky Mountain West, Travel Journals
Autumn has historically been one of the best times of year to travel. In years past while under the employ of others I began intentionally traveling in Autumn largely to use the legal holiday of Labor Day as a vacation day, providing the most bang for the... 
by John Crane | Oct 27, 2017 | Believeinfilm, black and white film, Film Photography, Medium Format, Pacific Northwest, Washington
The last day in Forks was spent around Klaloch’s Beach One. After checking out of the Town Motel I headed south on the 101 for one last look at the coast. I was to head inland later this day and though I’d still see the water – it wouldn’t be... 
by John Crane | Oct 23, 2017 | black and white film, Destinations, Environmental, Film Photography, Hoh Rainforest, Medium Format, New Halem, Olympic National Park, Pacific Northwest, Philosophy, Physiographic Provinces, Road Trippin', Twisp, Washington
For many years I’ve had a fascination with the Pacific Northwest, and more specifically, Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. One early memory comes from a American Wilderness TIME-LIFE series book given to me one Christmas about the Cascades. I was a... 
by John Crane | Sep 6, 2017 | Environmental, Physiographic Provinces
As air quality in Colorado worsens by the day due to fires in Wyoming I’ve been keeping an eye on the historically bad wildfire situation in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Montana. It wasn’t until this morning when I punched up a map of (major)... 
by John Crane | Aug 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
After much hemming and hawing, head scratching and pontificating it looks like it’s been decided. Back to the Olympic Peninsula the last week of September, 2017. This page has been established to – more than anything else – save the map I created in... 
by John Crane | Jun 20, 2017 | 4042n, Colorado, Road Trippin'
Yuma County Grain, Yuma, Colorado For whatever reason I’m drawn to the the less popular; the rag-tag, rumpled, untucked misfits of the world. Not as some sort of contrarian act – but more in a search for intrinsic worth. In all things, an acknowledgement... 