The pictures used were made during late December 1999 - early Jan 2000 at locations within 4 hours drive from Los Angeles in each compass direction.
| NW | Morro Bay |
| N | Sequioa National Forest |
| NE | Mojave Desert |
| E | San Bernadino Mountains |
| SE | Joshua Tree National Forest |
| S | San Diego |
| SW | Long Beach |
| W | Santa Monica |
The pictures were taken with two cheap point-and-shoot cameras, a Minolta Explorer and an Olympic Stylus Epic, using Fugi 400 film, digitized using Kodak Picture Disk, and edited in Corel Photopaint 9.