In the Field: Photo Blog by Richard Wong

Photography field reports by Richard Wong. Richard’s work has been published in magazines, books, advertising, and offers fine art prints of his work. Images may be licensed as rights-managed stock photos by contacting Richard directly at Richard@rwongphoto.com or (626) 422-6151. California stock photography, fine art prints, photo blog: www.rwongphoto.com

Salvation Mountain

Posted on | February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment

Leonard Knight's Station Wagon at Salvation Mountain, Imperial County near Niland, California Leonard Knight’s Station Wagon at Salvation Mountain, Imperial County near Niland, California

There is this computer game series called Fallout that I am a really big fan of. The setting takes place in a post-nuclear California wasteland with familiar locations such as Reno, San Francisco, and Slab City. Much of the landscape and characters in Fallout are reminiscent to the communities you would see around the Salton Sea. That was my inspiration for deciding how to process this image and yesterday’s photo from Bombay Beach.

Category: California, Salton Sea
Tags: > >

Comments

One Response to “Salvation Mountain”

  1. admin
    February 21st, 2009 @ 3:52 am

    Note: (I had to copy and paste the comments from Blogger since I started migrating to Wordpress before the comments were posted. Thank you for your patience.)

    8 Comments:

    At 8:02 AM, Anonymous Ron Niebrugge said…

    Cool Richard – did you get to meet Leonard?

    At 10:43 AM, Anonymous Richard Wong said…

    Thanks Ron. Yeah I met Leonard and took his guided tour.

    At 5:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Looks like the same artist did the mountain and the car, was that Leonard?

    Just love you depiction of the scene. Has an “lost look” to it. Teri

    At 7:16 AM, Anonymous Sherri Meyer said…

    This is a very bazaar place. It reminds me a lot of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

    At 10:03 AM, Anonymous Richard Wong said…

    Hi Teri. Yeah Leonard worked on both. I think he might have some help painting the mountain these days but I’m not 100% sure.

    At 10:04 AM, Anonymous Richard Wong said…

    Thanks Sherri. I haven’t been to Black Rock but Slab City is basically a squatter community as some would call it.

    At 4:26 AM, Blogger Mark said…

    You gave this a great look Richard – perfect. Seems like a pretty wild place.

    When are they going to bring more of these cool games to Mac? Guess I may have to get a 360 one of these days.

    At 10:51 AM, Anonymous Richard Wong said…

    Thanks Mark. Fallout 2 came out in the late 90’s and is a classic. Fallout 3 came out a few months ago and is quite a bit different but is still fun to play in my opinion.

Leave a Reply





Page 1 of 11