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Stopped near Coalville Utah today for a few pictures of the Echo Reservoir area. The westbound side of the interstate which is where I stopped is difficult to get a lot of the lake into the picture because the highway and guardrails blocking the view. So, like always, just work with what is available. On my way through Salt Lake I stopped by my moms house and took her to lunch, then over to Walmart to grab a few thing. The 20 degrees in Salt Lake felt pretty nice, and I did make it to California tonight, so glad to be out of the freezing temperatures of the past two weeks.
This was definitely my scariest shot, my knees felt weak as I took just a few shots from the edge. I made sure nobody was near me. I know this is the ubiquitous shot everyone has to take, it's like a right of passage. Horseshoe Bend near Page, AZ.
Oh, for scale you can see tents and a few kayaks along the shore. The canyon is about 1,000 ft (330 m) deep. No overlook or guardrails, just the edge of the plateau. If you fell, you'd fall about 600 ft before first impact. Not good.
In southwest Colorado there is a scenic 232-mile (373 km) loop route called the San Juan Skyway. A section of the Skyway is called the “Million Dollar Highway”. There is a high elevation stretch which runs for 12 miles through the Uncompahgre Gorge to the summit of Red Mountain Pass (11,018 ft / 3358 m) which gives the highway its name, although the origin of the name is disputed. There are several legends, including that it cost a million dollars a mile to build in the 1920s, or that its fill dirt contains a million dollars in gold ore, or it is the figurative price for the amazing views of the San Juan Mountains.
The 12-mile stretch through the gorge is challenging and hazardous to drive. It is characterized by steep cliffs (with occasional avalanches), sudden drop-offs, and a total lack of guardrails. There are no guardrails because it allows the road to be plowed in winter by pushing the snow over the edges.
The Million Dollar Highway has been named the most dangerous highway in the US to drive. There are about forty car crashes per year and sadly, they are often fatal, with an average of seven deaths per year.
Interstate 5 traffic during the blue hour.
Seattle, Washington, USA.
Wishing you all a healthy, prosperous, humane, civil, less chaotic and less cantankerous new year in 2021!
My latest blog article is a retrospective that has a very unintended and unfortunate title (since it's probably the last thing anyone would ever want to do!): "Yesteryear 2020 - One Last Look"
2021 is here at last!
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This is the second image in this series. I should have mentioned these two pictures were taken along a major highway. They both involved serious climbing over guardrails and I highly recommend earplugs.
Original Info on this series: On my drive to work each day I would notice the mist rising beyond the guard rails, and then it would be gone. Next it would be a flash of red and gold, a glint of light would catch my eye and they too would be gone as I continued along the highway to work. I have always known that if I kept my camera in the car on the days driving to work, I would never arrive. So, last Fall I decided to take the time and stop along the main highways and the back roads and climb over the guard rails. What transpired was a series of images that are seldom noticed by the thousands who pass them every day. I call the series “Beauty Beyond the Barriers”. I hope you enjoy them.
The lovely textures used in this series are thanks to the beautiful work of Anna Lenabem and Jai Johnson.
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Tilden Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA
It was raining the day before. The sun finally broke through around noon. After being in the sun for a while, the tilted top edge of the guardrail over a bridge became steamy warm. This pair of juvenile Dark-eyed Juncos seized the moment and knew exactly what to do. They were sitting flat, preening and basking in the sun with their bellies fully touching th warm surface.
The play of the light on the feathers helps me understand more and more that photography really is about light and shadow. Near St.John's, NL, Canada. So far this is my fave in this series.
With my job trucking across the Country, I'm in the middle of winter one day and in short sleeves the next, whatever the conditions, seems like there's always something to embrace.
This is a repost of a shot I took in January 2013, but didn't know anything about editing. Hopefully I've learned a few things. This edited version was processed in Lightroom and Nix Color Efex. Spent about 10 minutes editing since I already knew what I wanted to do. Cleaned up the many sensor dust spots, and got rid of the guardrail on the lower left, then made adjustments going back and forth between Lightroom and Color Efex until I was happy with the results.
Here's a link to the orginal SOOC post:
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This is India Point Bridge which goes directly over the Interstate 195 in Providence. I'm standing on a stone pillar at the entrance to the bridge which I climbed because there's a tightly woven chain link fence so couldn't get the lens through to get a clear shot. It's 25 feet down to the on ramp so had to carefully balance the tripod and lean to the right against a metal post so I wouldn't fall off. I was waiting for the sky to light up but it never really happened so caught this in the blue hour. I damaged my ND filter so couldn't really go any longer than a 30 second exposure without blowing out the highlights. You'll have to zoom in to see the light trails.
Well I've decided to break one of my rules, that of not posting verticals to Flickr. Alas given I shot a ton of verticals on BCR I'm going to make exceptions for these. So here is BCR #14 at Tisdall, mp 91. This being an easy guardrail shot (OK all my shots were) it was one of my "go to" spots.
Enjoyed a lovely walk along the N. Vancouver recently redeveloped historic Waterfront and Shipyards complex. HFF!
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It has been foggy and off and on rainy since Friday. The local airport had to cancel almost all flights for the past three days. My son had to get back to school but his flight was canceled for two days straight. I ended up driving him to Detroit to catch the second leg of his flight; with fog like this most of the way there and back. At night you couldn't see more than the distance of three lane hash marks, even with fog lights.
Qui da noi son secoli che non piove seriamente, solo rari episodi sporadici e insignificanti, molto preoccupante
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One of the juvenile Peregrine Falcons learning about flying. Took a short flight to this guardrail then inched its way along a 100' stretch afraid to fly. It managed to make its way back to safety eventually.
They say you should stay 25 yards from bison. I was actually closer than that, I think, but only because I was standing behind a guardrail on an overpass with a significant gully between me and this huge bison. Still, despite that I was not moving, this bison was communicating with its stomping front hoof that he was not happy with my presence. Among the many bison we encountered in the national parks, this is the only one that had a grumpy disposition. Not sure what made him so much angrier than the others, but I took the shot and backed away.
Hit "z" twice for the close up of the stare this bison is giving.
Angels Landing is a rock formation in Zion National Park in southwestern Utah, United States. The trail to the top would have to be one of the most thrilling hikes anywhere. Thanks to the National Park Service for installing guardrails.
The Old Mail Road,now The Old Mail Trail or Birch Overland Pioneer Mail Trail of 1857, it stretch from San Diego to Texas. Though this looks to be a more modern improvement, although not that recent by the shape of the road. You can see where the timber guardrails have been cut off. The road now has a hint of asphalt here and there, and quite a few rockslides and vegetation reclaiming it. Due to the use of Pack Mules it was also called The Jackass Mail Trail.
Vicinity of Mount Laguna
By the way its a long drop below