Van Horn Texas

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Van Horn, Texas is about 150 miles east of El Paso and also on I-10. I was looking for some local flavor when I encountered this roadhouse.

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It was around 11AM, clear sky with strong shadows. The bike on the roof is what caught my eye. I took this photograph with the Nikon D90 set on aperture priority, ISO 200 f/5.6 at 1/1600.

I spent most of my time at an antique/junk shop called "Fancy Junk and Unusual Objects". With a name like that I just had to park the truck and take a look.

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Definitely unique junk. Look past the jaws of this metalic beast to read they also do upholstery. Since I wanted to focus on the jaws and not the building I set the D90 on f4. That automatically ran the shutter speed up to 1/2000 at ISO 200. I got the desired soft focus of the background while the foreground is nice and sharp.

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Yet one more strange looking beast to photograph before  moving on down the road.

This was also shot with the D90, aperture priority set to f4 and the shutter at 1/20000 with the ISO still at 200.

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