Across the Southwest / Adam Schallau

What a difference two years makes.

I’ve driven Mokee Dugway on Highway 261 countless times and I remember always seeing a few stickers on the sign at the top of the switcbacks, but I wasn’t prepared for what i found this past May on my drive to the top. As you can see in the above photo, the sign is nearly completely covered with stickers from passing tourists. I wonder how long it will be before the Utah Department of Transportation replaces the sign and the process starts all over.

It’s been awhile since I last posted here on Across the Southwest. In the past five weeks I’ve been very busy keywording and writing descriptions for all of my stock images. I’ll be the first to admit that keywording is a the worst part of the job when it comes to photography, but it is also one of the most essential tasks. Lets face-it, if a buyer (or worse, you) can’t find your work then there’s little chance its going to sell. With that in mind, six weeks ago I set out to keyword all of my images, but what I didn’t plan on at the time was getting the crazy idea to completely reorganize my website.

I’m now displaying my fine art photo galleries separate from my stock database with a new look to that part of the website. The end result is that all of my images can now be efficiently found through a keyword search, and many of my best fine art images can be viewed in one place.

I will continue to add images to both the fine art pages and the stock database as I create new work.