On our recent trip to the La Brea Tar Pits, my brother-in-law decided to roll down a steep hill. As I photographed his journey, my first thought was “This will make a great black-and-white series.” My second thought was, “Ouch! That looks painful!” Fortunately, my first thought was correct and my second thought wasn’t. When I showed my oldest son the original images on the camera, he looked at his uncle and quoted The Princess Bride, “As you wish!”
Photos taken with a Nikon D40x at the La Brea Tar Pits, CA.
This is probably what the dinosaurs were doing when they suddenly found themselves stuck in a puddle of black tar. Fortunately, there was no sticky doom at the end of this story.