Burning Man 2015, part 2

The lamplighters circumambulate the Man prior to lighting him up on Saturday night.

The man blows up.

In the glow of the burning man.

Trevor and Cheer's boing board and their VW bus

Bridget, Larry and Daddy O

Trevor and Cheer 

Our neighbors' art car, the Neverwas Haul, a self-propelled 3-story Victorian house

R-Evolution at sunrise on Monday morning...

Monday morning, Burners gather around the embers from Sunday evening's Temple fire and waited for the sun to rise...

And that guy took off running naked towards the rising sun in the desert.

And then he stopped.

Burning Man 2015, part 1

Couldn't believe that this year marked my fifth time to venture out into the Nevada desert at the end of the summer for this giant spectacle of human creativity, ingenuity and wondrous sculptures.

Mannequins staring at their iPhones

Dusk on Thursday

The Man

These images are under a piece of art called Firmament.

Cozy cuddle puddle looking up at Firmament

At the Firmament at sunrise on Saturday morning...see some video of the installation with Steve Reich music here.

Some of the beautiful art seen at sunrise on Saturday...

Temple of Promise

Love by Alexandr Milov at dawn, the first official burning man art produced by a Ukranian

Firespinners at dawn...

Dawn at Camp Questionmark, possibly one of the better sound camps at Burning Man

Burning Man 2011, Monday

Biking on the playa after much of the art has been taken down or burned...




Robbie


Remaining wood and trash from camps and art pieces are burned in big containers on the playa.




Burning Man is officially a "leave no trace" event and so after the structures are burned, the playa earth is raked to pick up all MOOP (matter out of place).




Packing up the playa bikes


To spread out the impact of dumping water onto the dry playa surface, Glen pours out extra water through a watering can while biking in circles.




After waiting out for the huge exodus of vehicles leaving the site all Sunday night and Monday, we left early Tuesday morning with no traffic for a drive in Glen's VW bus back to San Francisco.