I am sure they made it to Amarillo by morning.The whole image smells of old Texas and that was the goal. This will be the farthest we’ve driven, the farthest I’ve gone is 8 hours away to KS and my GF has only driven 2 hours to Chicago. Then, we’re planning on continuing to LA and spending a couple days there. 'Amarillo by Morning' is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded by Stafford in 1973. I think it works and I have always wanted to have a picture with this title. Cross country road trip tips I’m 20 and my girlfriend and I are going to be driving from WI to Phoenix AZ for my mom’s wedding. (C) 1987 MCA Nashville, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. I wrestled with this the night before the shot and finally it dawned on me what to do. George Strait - Amarillo By Morning Music video by George Strait performing Amarillo By Morning. To have the foreground subject out of focus is a tension point in any photograph and to have the human characters out of focus would seem fairly suboptimal. One or other would be in focus, but never both. This is simply because the horses’ heads will be at least 10 feet in front of the people driving the wagon. For a storyteller of life on the final frontier, props don’t get any better, but finding an authentic one and taking it to the pre-researched location in the wilderness of West Texas is a challenge and an expense.Īnyhow, those issues overcome, the biggest problem with photographing a wagon on the move is that it does not suit my style of photography which would tend to be to shoot towards the oncoming wagon.

No mode of transport is more emblematic of the great push West and the attendant dangers. Wagons evoke childhood memories of watching John Wayne Westerns on the BBC on cold winter evenings.

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