Sunday at Burning Man is the day when the massive wooden "temple" is burned. I rrived early to get a decent view, and used a slow shutter speed to blur the procession of people walking in front of me.
Fire of Fires by David Umlas, Marrilee Ratcliffe, Community Art Makers:
earth.burningman.com/brc/2009/art_installation/430/
After shooting things and people for several days, it was comforting to find a shot that felt more like a desert landscape. The Black Rock Desert has the ability to heal itself quickly of the footprints left the night before.
Unfortunately my tent was completely flattened by the wind on Friday afternoon, and upon returning late at night and finding the wind velocity still high, I didn't have the energy to try to plant some stakes upwind and tie it down to see if it might stay up. I slept on the platform taht I've built in the back of my (by now very dusty) minivan.
You never know what you're going to run across at Burning Man! I ofund this guy standing under the Soma art installtion by Flaming Lotus Girls. He was standing completely still, shooting a timelapse sequence for some reason. I'll try to follow up and find out why!
Soma, by Flaming Lotus Girls:
earth.burningman.com/brc/2009/art_installation/439/
Friday night featured the "launch" of the Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship. I sat for hours waiting to see if the event would occur in the high winds, but I ran out of patience in the dust and wind and headed back to camp.
Groovik's Cube by Barry Brummitt
URL: www.groovik.com/
http://earth.burningman.com/brc/2009/art_installation/471/
A performer spits fire on the Towers of Shiva stage at Burning Man 2009. Here's the Burning Man Earth entry for that art installation:
http://earth.burningman.com/brc/art_installation/445/
I really like the abstract quality of this shot.
The art installation Portal of Evolution as the sun prepares to set at Burning Man 2009. Here's the Burning Man Earth entry for that art piece:
http://earth.burningman.com/brc/art_installation/437/
Just a quick note to say that I've started uploading photos and videos from Burning Man 2009 to my Flickr photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/
I'll post some of the best here as I get more edited!
Black Rock City is a temporary city of about 50,000 people who converge on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the Burning Man event.
The central circle that holds most of the art, including the man to be burned at the center, is 1.5 miles in diameter, an area of nearly 5 square miles. The art continues out onto the surface of the dry lakebed of Lake Lahontan for several more square miles.
I walked about 6 to 12 miles per day to see everything that I could see, but I probably saw less than 5% of what was there. Next time I'll bring a bike!
