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Epic Road Trips

@Doodski both of those shots were taken from spots within 50 feet of each other. The first one is looking downstream, the second upstream.
 
Ron Texas said:
@Doodski both of those shots were taken from spots within 50 feet of each other. The first one is looking downstream, the second upstream.
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I guess I prefer the mosquito ridden swampy end of the lake more than the wide open stuff...LoL. :facepalm: It appears that the water is moving so I figured it would be OK.
 
Ron Texas said:
Blue Lakes Wetlands Pano by Ron Scubadiver, on Flickr
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If it is OK with you I want to copy the/this image and use it as one of two desktop images that I will hopefully have of yours. I have another that I was able to copy paste as a desktop image. It fits in so well with my blacked out window themes as the dark colors are present even when zapping back onto the desktop. Great pics! >@^_*@< :D
 
Doodski said:
If it is OK with you I want to copy the/this image and use it as one of two desktop images that I will hopefully have of yours. I have another that I was able to copy paste as a desktop image. It fits in so well with my blacked out window themes as the dark colors are present even when zapping back onto the desktop. Great pics! >@^_*@< :D
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It's OK, just don't give it out.
 
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You've really done it this time! Glorious shot... Is that a juniper tree on the edge? If that is it would be thousands of years old probably. They grow veryyy slow and live long.
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I don't know what kind of tree it is. Elevation is around 9,500'. Did you notice the squirrel?
 
I enjoy a well planned out road trip every summer. This year is Bitterroot mountains (MT), Lost River Range (ID) and Sawtooth mountains (ID) for hiking/backpacking/mountain climbing. Then going west to the Hood River Valley and Brookings in Oregon for more road tourist type of travel. If time allows I'll stop at Mount Saint Helens on the way home.

Last road trip was good. Started with a hike at home before hitting the road, then on to Cape Kiwanda (OR), Garfield Peak (Crater Lake), Mount Lassen (CA), Slackers Hill (Golden Gate Park), Chimney Rock (Point Reyes). On the way home visited Burroughs mountain (Mount Rainier), Lighthouse Point (Deception Pass) and drove through North Cascades NP for the more scenic route home.


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Meadow and Clouds by Ron Scubadiver, on Flickr

This is on the way from Leadville, CO to Independence pass. It doesn't get photographed a lot. Landscape photography is a challenge because the best views like the Maroon Bells near Aspen, Yosemite, Grand Canyon and the like get photographed so much the image becomes trite. I look for beautiful places which are not famous destinations.
 
Ron Texas said:
Meadow and Clouds by Ron Scubadiver, on Flickr

This is on the way from Leadville, CO to Independence pass. It doesn't get photographed a lot. Landscape photography is a challenge because the best views like the Maroon Bells near Aspen, Yosemite, Grand Canyon and the like get photographed so much the image becomes trite. I look for beautiful places which are not famous destinations.
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Are you using a green filter with the circular polarizer lens too?
 
Ron Texas said:
Meadow and Clouds by Ron Scubadiver, on Flickr

This is on the way from Leadville, CO to Independence pass. It doesn't get photographed a lot. Landscape photography is a challenge because the best views like the Maroon Bells near Aspen, Yosemite, Grand Canyon and the like get photographed so much the image becomes trite. I look for beautiful places which are not famous destinations.
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Your penchant for capturing a great skyscape helps too.

When you rode into Leadville I hope you had a few beers, just like in the Jimmy Buffett song.
 
@Doodski I don't use a polarizer, and do some color shifts with blues and greens. It's all pretty basic stuff in Lightroom. Saturation and contrast are relatively high.
 
No photo's but the wife and I once drove from Portland Oregon to Miami Florida... just because.

Now thats epic.

Peter
 
No pictures at the moment, but my longest road trip was probably in Western Australia in the early 90’s. As I recall, around 9000 km in 5 or 6 days. Did it solo. Started in Perth, down and around the coast to Albany, up to Hayden/Wave Rock, then further north to the Pinnacles, and finally back to Perth. No planned sleep stops - just when I got tired of driving I’d find a hostel or motel.

I remember when renting the car, they tried to sell me both tire and windshield insurance. Declined as credit card covered at the time and no idea why I needed those insurances. Found out soon enough. In Western Australia, alot of the rural roads are only paved one car width in the middle and either side is red dirt. When there is a car on-coming, you have to share the paved bit (one pair of tires on the asphalt, the other on the dirt - which wasn’t necessarily flat or rock free). Hence, tire insurance. Needless to say, my white car was a bright red by the time I got back to Perth.

As to windshield insurance, there are millions of green parrots there and they aren’t the brightest birds. Here in the States (and most other places I’ve driven), when you approach birds in the road, they usually fly off to the side or directly up. Not these green parrots. They fly right into the on-coming car, generally aiming straight at the windshied. First time I came across them, I was probably going 70-80 mph. At least two got my windshield- feathers every where. Luckily, windshield was fine aside from parrot blood and guts. Definitely approached the parrots at a much slower speed after that
 
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