Salton Sea

Salton Sea on KCRA-TV

This is our vacation home movie. Most people put some videos together, post them on Youtube or burn DVDs and mail them to family. I write up a script, edit my videos and have them broadcast on a network affiliate. Yes, I put my vacation photos and videos out on the news. This story aired on KCRA-TV’s Common Ground at 6:30 PM on Sunday, May 15, 2011. hb129 from Mike Carroll on Vimeo. As a continuation from the two earlier posts about our trip to Southern California and the Salton Sea: Just over a month ago Bonnie, Alex, Ava...

On The Road – Part Two, The Salton Sea

By Mike Carroll

The Salton Sea is a photographer’s Disneyland. A desert lake. Barren, harsh and beautiful. Not so much natural as unnatural. Located thirty miles south of Indio, which is just next to Palm Springs, the Salton Sea is 229 feet below sea level. (Technical Note: I’m going to go into greater detail on the shooting of these photos in a few weeks. Later in the morning I started shooting from a tripod and shooting both stills and video of the same thing. I have an idea for what I’m going to do with it, but am going to go into...

On The Road – Part One: Heading South

By Mike Carroll

These next two postings are going to be very much on the personal side: family vacation. Bonnie and I on the road with our family of two rescued greyhounds, Alex and Ava. Bonnie and I haven’t taken a vacation anywhere on our own since we got together in 1997. In the interim we’ve been to St. Louis where my family is, or was at that time, and New York City, home to her daughter Lori, who starred in our film Nightbeats, and her son Sam. I’ve loved those trips, wandering and discovering NYC, but we’ve long yearned to do...