The tourists have departed, leaving only a handful of photographers behind to catch the effect of the sunset on the town’s vintage main street. Oatman is a remote gold mining town not far from the spot where Arizona, California, and Nevada come together. All three states knew mining booms and busts over the last 150 years, and Oatman witnessed all of it and more. I evoke the mood of Oatman’s gilded age by photographing its single street in golden light, illuminating the remnants of its now-shuttered 1902 hotel. (It became nationally famous as the honeymoon stop of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard after their wedding in Kingman in 1939.) The clothing shop next door is known as “The Classy Ass,” named, no doubt, in honor of the herd of semi-wild mining burros that still prowl Oatman’s streets. The dark rain cloud hovering over the scene adds powerful color contrast to the vivid primary colors of the buildings.