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and Backroads of Southern California (new) Also out in 2005: Yosemite in Photographs Your Guidebooks to California's Scenic Backroad Tours and Adventures Text and Photography by Dave Wyman |
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Draw an imaginary line across the center of California. Anchor one end off the Santa Cruz mountains, on the Pacific coast. Run the line east over the Coast Range, through the Central Valley, and over the Sierra Nevada mountains. Tether the other end of the line at the Nevada border, on the fringe of the Great Basin Desert. "Backroads of Northern California" covers the incomparable natural beauty, the myths and the history of the Golden State on the northern side of that line, while "Backroads of Southern California does the honors for the lower half, from the San Joaquien Valley to the border with Mexico. The books together contain about 265 of my color photographs, most made especially for the books. Others come from my collection of images made on Image Quest photography workshops. Several historical portraits, obtained from the California state library, local history museums, and private collections, date to the 1800s. The photographs are supplemented by texts that cover many of California's most scenic backroads. There are vignettes about the state's rather colorful pioneer past, with photographs and stories about miners, loggers, the child bride of a Chinese shop keeper, California's first Renaissance couple, the last Stone Age American, British sea captains and former slaves, bandits and explorers. Geographically, the "Backroads" cover portions of several mountain ranges, including the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, the Klamaths, the Coast Ranges and the Transverse Ranges; roads in the Sacramento Delta, the Central Valley, the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts, the Pacific coast, wine country, and backroads around Los Angeles and San Diego counties are also profiled.
How to Purchase the Books Either of the Backroads books are available (or can be ordered) at local bookstores. They are available through amazon.com. Or the books can be ordered directly through me, and I will include an autograph.
Review from Roadtrip America "It's all too easy to call photographs stunning, but in this case the adjective is truly warranted...here's the great thing -- his words are just as good." Click here to read the entire review from roadtripamerica.com.
- Slide Shows/Book Signings - June 29, 2005: . I'll present "How to Photograph the Backroads of Southern California" at the June dinner of Clickers and Flickers. Dawn Stevens created a the innovative Clickers and Flickers network for photographers in the Los Angeles area. Members include a former Life magazine photographer, actor Leonard Nimoy, and a variety of amateur and professional photographers. Contact Clickers and Flickers for dinner reservations and/or membership. October 3: San Diego Natural History Museum February 23, 2006: Sierra Club Singles, at the Los Angeles Zoo Education Building March 8: West Los Angeles Sierra Club, Veterans Memorial Building, Uruapan Room, Culver City, 7 p.m. Contact Dave for further details or visit the links, above. My Publisher
email: Dave Wyman
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"THERE ARE SOME who believe the center of the universe is in northwest California. The only way to know for sure is to drive twenty-two miles on California Highway 96, along the Trinity River and into the heart of the Klamath Mountains." "WHEN I WAS a college student I would occasionally drive a few miles with my girlfriend to the Honey Run Road Covered Bridge in Butte Creek Canyon, not far from Chico State. We would walk across the bridge, listening to our footsteps echo inside the wooden span, listening to the water flowing beneath us, and then share a kiss in the night gone suddenly very still." "WHIMSICALLY REFERRED TO as Yosemite's smallest waterfall, the spring is about a foot high. It's also home to the rare lungwort, a plant that requires constant shade and moisture. Both requirements are in good supply at Fern Spring, which offers a charming counterpoint to the larger, more famous waterfalls of Yosemite Valley." "IF ANNIE BIDWELL knew about or even suspected her husband's earlier liaisons, then we can only conjecture what the implications might have been for the Bidwells and the Maidu." "HARD FACTS ABOUT Vasquez himself are open to conjecture. Was he captured in Los Angeles, near Pasadena, or in the Tejon Pass? We do know his last word, uittered just before he was hanged on Marach 19, 1875: Pronto." "The PISGAH CRATER, a cinder cone estimated to have erupted less than one hundred thousand years ago, lies about ten miles east of Newberry Springs...Travelers can drive a passenger car almost to the top of the cone and a short walk to the summit offers a spectacular 360-degree view of the surrounding desert."
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