Here is the view from the South Rim at Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park. There is a full size Ford truck in this photo for scale. You’ll have to view this photo at full resolution to even see it. You can do that by clicking on the photo. Be advised the jpg is ~88MB.
When I came to visit this park with sculptures I was not expecting to see the Pokémon Go phenomenon. I had come here to have a look at the artwork and when I arrived I saw all these people staring at their phone playing Pokémon Go quietly. I was literally the only person in this whole park not playing the game or with someone playing. It was surreal and fascinating.
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading and thinking about the future of work. Obviously truck driving is going to be changed when autonomous vehicles take over that job. What I hadn’t realized was the sheer number of truck drivers in the world. There is a staggering number of them. In that vein I decided to stop at the “World’s Largest Truckstop” on my last photography trip to learn more.
As I was wandering around making photographs this gentleman approached me. He said “Hey, can you make any money doing that?” referring to photography. I said if you work hard enough and long enough maybe, just maybe you can make a little money. He told me he was a truck driver and that he was thinking about taking up photography. He’d been “making a little bit of money” making YouTube slideshows of photography. I told him to email me and we could continue the conversation online. He’s holding my card in his hand in this photograph. When I asked if I could take a photo of him he decided to pose like this. I guess he wanted to look tough. He never got in touch.
