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From a roadside pullout along the main park road with a view looking to the southwest across the New Mexico mountain desert landscape. While the view was facing kind of towards the sun as it rose in the morning skies, I was able to minimize any lens artifacts while still angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to bring out more of a sweeping view across this nearby hillside leading up to more distant mountains. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
Woke up real early to hike around Bear Lake and some of the surrounding trails/lakes, In Rocky Mountain National Park. Was fairly cloudy morning.While on road (yup, Bear Lake Road), there was a pullout, and I stopped quickly to just take shot or 2 of the Aspens which were just about at peak. Within 5mins, quick short storm came over and produced this beautiful rainbow (its a double, but the double didn't come out in the photo). I got soaked, but it was worth it. Continued on to Bear Lake, and further uphill to Dream Lake, got rained on a lot, but was a great day..........
And no.......No pot of gold anywhere to be found.......Thats just the way my luck goes! :-)
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At a pullout along I35 in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma, one old wind powered water well pump and one modern wind turbine. The old one is about 30 feet (~10m) tall, the new one stands at least 3 times that (I couldn't get close enough to really estimate), but is sitting below the ridge where the old one sits.
A setting looking to the north from a roadside pullout along the main Scenic Drive in this part of Capitol Reef National Park. The focus of my composition was the monocline and cliff walls leading of into the distance.
While planing for this trip to Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Ohio, I decided to spend time on Flickr and 500px to scout out ideas for places to explore and hike with my Nikon D800E. I came across this image on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/3blackdogs/9290207367/in/gallery-14...). I've found Evernote and clipping images and thoughts a handy tool to attempt to keep track and even organize so that I can better use the time there to visit what can often become a long list. That's the story behind this image in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It's a roadside pullout along Riverview Rd with the bridge of the Ohio Turnpike stretching above. Because of the overcast weather I had the days during my travels, I did not get to experience a sunrise or fog like the other images but I was able to capture a similar feel with the look across this grassy meadow with the bridge on one side to frame the setting. I found angling my Nikon SLR camera also allowed for a more sweeping view that added to a sense of scale for this setting.
The trees wear their moss like coats in the winter. I'm actually quite envious of their style... soft, lush, verdant. This image was taken along Germantown road last weekend. I was driving up to a trailhead and these trees caught my attention, so I parked in the next pullout and dashed back down the road to make this image. I probably should wait for the Hasselblad version, but I was organizing images tonight and didn't want to lose this one. It's pretty much unedited from the original... I left the blue cast alone, because that's really how the world seemed at the time... the branches, fleshed with green, reaching into a pale and ethereally blue void.
And so as a result, you get two images from me tonight.
Sornfelli was a mountain plateau I sort of happened across not quite by accident but not entirely by design either. It sits only about a 20-25 minute drive outside of Tórshavn (remember, in the Faroe Islands nothing is far away) just off the Oyggjarvegur. This latter is a scenic highway and one of the few roads that opts to go over the mountains instead of through them. I drove the Oyggjarvegur quite a bit during my stay there. It is an incredible route to drive and offers a ceaseless array of vistas (but then again, every drive in the Faroes offers ceaseless arrays of vistas). To reach this plateau though you have to turn up a narrow mountain road. This may have been the most harrowing drive I did the whole time there. It is another of those one lane roads with shallow pullouts every 100 meters, that allow you to just squeeze out of the way of another car while hugging a sheer rock wall or precipitous drop. Throw in constant hairpin curves cutting visibility to a couple hundred meters, if that, and a steep incline and you go creeping up this mountain hoping an oncoming car doesn't come swinging around the bend ahead of you just as you pass the closest pullout. I had looked this place up on Google Maps and it had seemed worth the visit though so I went puttering up the mountain curious as to what I would find. You can drive all the way up to a medium-sized parking lot near a weather station and that spot offers some incredible views. But I noticed a small dirt road about 3/4 of the way where a couple cars were parked so I nosed in among them, stepped out of the car, turned around and saw Skælingsfjall right there. The dirt road continued on a little ways toward the mountain so I grabbed my gear and followed it farther into the plateau until I reached a spot where it was buried in snow and a lone truck sat contemplating the lack of road forward. Thankfully snow is little trouble for those on foot and the vast, open, and silent (except for the wind) plateau kept beckoning. Once across the snow, the remnants of the road provided the only trail I could see so I kept on along it with the mountain as my cardinal point. The sense of solitude was rich and the weather that evening was incredible. I stopped at several junctures to unpack cameras or to simple stand, look and listen. Eventually I reached a ridge that looked down on the valley on the other side of this plateau and thought about hiking down into it but the day was getting darker by that point and I had dinner to get back to. But I made a mental note to return in the coming days and further explore the hike into the valley (which I did, but those are photos for another post).
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Road to Apex Mountain is a very picturesque drive with the trees laden with snow. It also has lots of hair pin curves and is very slippery in the winter months ..... but that doesn't stop those F150 drivers from sitting on your bumper flashing their lights at you because you're only going 5 kph over the speed limit.
Fortunately there are lots of pullouts like this one.
Taken with 7Artisans 10mm fisheye lens - this is actually a straight road.
Last summer. Driving home, heading directly into a wall of grey, hail pinging off my car, I could barely see the road. Finally the worst of it had slid past, and I found a familiar pullout, stopped, made a few shots. Noticed a few knuckle dents in my car's roof. No big deal. I didn't know yet that the freak storm cell had passed directly over the village, dropping hailstones larger than eggs that destroyed every roof in town, including mine. The storm also produced a tornado that was seen from town. It spun harmlessly away.
Photographed just north of Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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I have been to Rt 395 and the towns that dot this beautiful highway many times over, and I still don’t understand how it took me this long to visit Lake Crowley. It's not a tiny lake, and from the photos I have seen online looks spectacular. I only found the lake because a couple of feet of ice blocked the access road to one of our favorite hot spring areas, and while trying to get back to the highway, we came across a pullout with a view of a frozen lake. The access road to Lake Crowley was closed, so we couldn’t get close to the lake, but thankfully the pullout had a decent view of the lake and some gorgeous mountains in the background. Since it was mid-day didn’t even bother taking my digital cameras and instead took out my Bronica. I had Kodak T-max 100 B7W film on, and it did an excellent job resolving this tough scene.
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A setting looking to the west while taking in views across mountain desert setting in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. This was at a roadside pullout along the main part road.
A look back at a roadside pullout along Artists Drive with a view looking to the northeast. This is in Death Valley National Park. What drew me into this setting were the shapes across the mountainside from erosion as well as the colors present in the minerals.
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I took this photo around Mar. 2, 2009 at the Snake River Pullout north of Jackson Hole, WY. Only part of the pullout was plowed but there were so many visitors by the time I arrived I only had to walk on a packed snow trail to where the rock wall is overlooking this view and at that time the snow was up to the top of the wall which is about 4 feet.
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In Joshua Tree National Park at a roadside pullout looking to the north-northwest and across a snowy landscape with Joshua Trees and other desert plant-life. I liked the layered look of this national park landscape with the snow covered foreground, leading up to the hillside of rock formation that was itself also getting snow covered. With this image, I decided to use a portrait orientation as I felt it matched the look of the main Joshua Tree in the image captured.
While at an roadside pullout overlook along the Maligne Lake Road and a view looking to the northeast and up the mountainside of the Western Queen Elizabeth Ranges. This is in Jasper National Park. My thought on composing this image was to angle my Nikon SLR camera such that I was able to fill this mountainside from edge to edge, but still including some blue skies above. I felt that that helped to complement the setting, especially with the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.
While at a roadside pullout along the Going-to-the-Sun Road with a view looking to the southwest across a nearby mountainside with a. forest of evergreens and Heavens Peak as a backdrop. This is in Glacier National Park.
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Driving along the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone, and we saw this coyote not far off the road pounce on something. We quickly pulled into a pullout and I jumped out for a few shots. Never could figure out what he caught, but he sure enjoyed whatever it was.
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I have been to the Zion national park three times in total, and I can safely say pound for pound, it has the most attractions of any national park. But I have been noticing a trend among my images from the park. I have many pictures from the western and northern parts of the park but hardly any from the park's eastern side. I noticed this trend is true for images uploaded with the Zion NP tag as well, very from the east portion of the park.
It's not that there aren’t any landscape subjects on the eastern side of the park. It's just that the western part of the park is just absolutely stunning. Also, the east side's attractions don’t have a lot of apparent viewpoints making composition difficult. Today's post’s purpose is to showcase the beauty of the eastern side of the Zion NP. I took this shot near the many pools trailhead. There is no pullout here, so I had to walk along the sidewalk and shoot this image rather quickly. I don’t know the exact name of this mesa, but I noticed this composition while we were driving to the checkerboard mesa and, on our way back, decided to see if I could make something of it. I wouldn’t say I liked the results initially, but I have grown to like it over time. It's not spectacular like some of the other spots in the park, it's also a much simpler composition that’s aimed more at showcasing the color and texture of the landscape, and I think it works well in that regard.
I haven't taken any new photos in a couple of days. I got in the car this morning and headed a couple of miles down the road to this pullout on the Seward highway. Just wanted to take a couple of quick shots and I ended up with this 4 photo panorama. Hope you enjoy.
This one's *not* a research participant, but is nonetheless hanging around a busy pullout (where the black bear den can be viewed) with the idea that sooner or later someone will offer food. Yellowstone National Park
I really love it's fluff! Monochrome enhances the details.
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In early May, the sun rises around 6:40am. If you're visiting Jekyll Island, drive to the northeastern side of the island. If you're traveling north along the east side road, you pull over at the first pullout spot beyond the last set of hotels on the right. Follow the short trail through the dense trees to the southern most section of Driftwood Beach. You'll be amazed how many trees you'll see like this.
Feel the gentle ocean breeze...hear the water upon the beach...enjoy the colors of morning's first light...enjoy life!
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Perhaps the most popular waterfall in Mount Rainier National Park, Narada Falls has an ever-present following of visitors. Veiling over a wall of basalt, the Paradise River slides and plunges 17 feet into a small pool then spreads out and veils 159 feet in a lacy display that can stretch to 75 feet wide at peak flow. When the river is running high, be prepared to get soaked at the viewpoint - the spray is always funneled straight at the trail. While the commonly enjoyed viewpoint provides the best views of the falls, a second, less developed viewpoint further downstream yields a side view of the falls from below, which has been used for some of the more famous pictures of this waterfall. The falls can also be partially viewed from the side of SR 706 near a large pullout about ½ a mile east of the bridge over the Paradise River. During the winter, the falls freeze and become 150 feet of Icicles, which attract ice climbers from afar.
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While at an overlook pullout along the Icefields Parkway with a view looking to the south-southeast to the ridges and peaks of the Hooker Icefield with Mount Brussels (Brussels Peak) and Mount Christie. This is at the Goats and Glacier Lookout in Jasper National Park. With this image, I decided to zoom in with the focal length and have those glacial carved ridges and peaks fill the image from edge to edge with portions caught in the morning sunlight.
A pullout job with an ex-ATSF SD45 shoves back into the Departure Yard as it completes its daily task of building trains.
While at a pullout along the Loop Drive in White Sands National Park with a view looking across the dunes and ridges leading up to distant mountains. My thought on composing this image was to capture a leveled-on view with the horizon more less centered across the image. That would help create a symmetry and balance between the white sands in the lower portion of the image and the mountains with blue skies and clouds in the upper portion.
A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across eroded formations and sandstone buttes in this southern Utah high desert landscape. This is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Highway 163 with a view looking to Brighams Tomb, Stagecoach, and King-on-his-Throne.
On an early morning drive north over the Malahat Highway, I detect an amazing sunrise is about to unfold and I am approaching a viewpoint. Taken from the pullout above Bamberton looking over the fog shrouded Saanich Peninsula near Victoria, BC.
Tucked away east of Jackson Hole is local treasure very few take the time to see. The Red Hills of the Gros Ventre Mountains are an exposed sandstone deposit that are leftover from when the region was under a shallow sea, roughly 50 million years ago. The road to the hills is engineered in such a way that immediately after coming around a small bend in the road, a dramatic view of the hills overwhelms you with a sense of natural beauty and wonder. A pullout is conveniently located at that exact location so that you can fully appreciate the view. While the view from the road is amazing, the hike up through the hills is even more rewarding. The trailhead begins on the other side of the road from the Red Hills Ranch and immerses you right away into the red and orange, sandstone landscape. After only a few hundred yards, you find yourself surrounding by the large hills at the bottom of a small canyon. Wildflowers, aspens, willows, and (some burned) evergreen all take their turns sharing the trail with you throughout your gradual ascent during the initial stretch of the trail.
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At a roadside pullout with a view looking to the northeast while watching a black bear enjoying go from bush to bush and likely eating whatever caught its interest. For the image composition, I kept a focus on the bear, capturing images when the head was more visible. The rest was metering the setting to not below any highlights, given the bright afternoon sunlight that day.
At a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 54 with a view looking across the Chihuahuan Desert to the northwest. My thought on composing this image was to use some Highground that I was located on next to this fence line and capture a sweeping view across this desert landscape with the small shrubs and wild grasses leading up to the Sierra Diablo Mountains off in the distance. I decided to keep the horizon more or less centered with the image so that I could include some of the clouds in the skies above. I liked how that was a color contrast to the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. The rest of the composition was exposing the image to get a correct lighting, given the morning sunshine that was coming from behind and still low in the skies above.
There's a large pullout area along Hwy. 62 in southwestern Colorado that provides a nice view of the Sneffels Mountain Range. The clouds over the mountains looked pretty threatening that day!
It's not all about the wildlife in this park, ya know. Ok, I'm sure for most people, it probably *is* all about the wildlife, but you have to admit, that wildlife lives within some spectacular vistas, like this one on the way to the Lamar Valley.
I'd returned to Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel from several days staying at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge. The snowcoaches dropped us off, I checked in to my room, then got in my vehicle and headed toward the Lamar Valley with my cameras. As I drove along, I noticed a herd of bison to my right and stopped at a pullout to capture this image.
I look at this photo and can feel the stiff, cold winter weather and the fresh air. Capturing a photograph is as much about what you felt at the time as it is about the scene you photograph.
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At a roadside pullout a little before the visitor center in the national park. The view is looking to the northwest. The composition is more balanced with the earth tones in the lower portion of the image, contrasted with bluer ones with the mountains and skies above in the upper portion.
Whenever I enter Mount Rainier National Park via the Stevens Canyon entrance, I always stop at the Falls Creek pullout to photograph this waterfall. Depending upon the time of the year, it can be at full throttle, or a mere trickle, as evidenced by a September shot I uploaded awhile back. I also love photographing this waterfall because of the play of light and shadow, and the many shades of green. Plus, it's good exercise for me in getting in a few "silky water" shots. During this particular instance, it was also good practice working with my new medium format Pentax 645z.
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In Joshua Tree National Park at a roadside pullout looking to the east and across a snowy landscape with Joshua Trees and other desert plant-life. With this image, I focused on the one tall Joshua Tree to my front, ensuring that I captured it in its entirety, while also including some other ones to complete the setting in this captured image.
Elephant Seal Rookery
California Coastal Highway
San Simeon, CA
This juvenile (1- 3 years old) seal appeared to be quite interested in the small shore bird. I thought it was an interesting picture to give some idea of the size of the seals. The ones pictured here, and indeed any of the 100 or so on this beach, are probably around 5 - 7 feet (1 or 2 m) long.
"Adult males are 14 to 16 feet (4 to 5 m) in length and 4,000 to 5,000 pounds (1,400 to 2,300 kg) in weight. The females are much smaller at about 9 to 12 feet (2.5 to 4 m) in length and weigh 900 to 1,800 pounds (400 to 800 kg). "
Adult elephant seals spend the majority of their time in the deep sea but do come to rookeries and beaches twice a year: in the spring & early summer to molt and in late fall & winter to mate and give birth. The juveniles, those not yet old enough to mate, have a pullout time for a few weeks in the fall.
I've So Many Miles to Travel
And only so many hours left
But the road ahead is straight
With a curve here and there
I just have to make it
And everything will be alright
There are scores of wondrous things to see
On this journey I am making
I should make a point to stop and enjoy them
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one morning not long after leaving Van Horn, Texas, and at a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 54. The view is looking to the southeast, back to where I’d driven. My thought on composing this image was to use the road as a leading line. I decided to keep the horizon more or less leveled-on with the image. That would allow me to use more of the road as a foreground. There would then be a strip of distant ridges going across the image center. The blue skies and clouds above would be a color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
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As another wonderful day of hiking and enjoying the outdoors, trails, colors, and waterfalls approached its end it was time to enjoy another famous feature of the Shenandoah National Park. All along Skyline Drive one can get beautiful distant views both to the east and west. That makes the park great for both early morning sunrise visits as well as late sunsets after other park activities ... #etbtsy
We pulled over to one of the many pullouts along Skyline Drive that offered a nice distant view as well as plenty of foreground colors. I thoroughly enjoyed the clouds and light that nature had in store this evening. Unlike a featureless blue sky would have the clouds and haze darkened the background, diffused the light, and created shafts of light illuminating the land below. All of that combined helped the colors stand out boldly, whether the yellow ...
There are two named overlooks (and one unnamed large pullout) along the narrow, winding Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive at Great Basin National Park in Nevada. This image was captured at Mather Overlook. Now, it was not captured right at the fenced view area, but rather along the side of the gravel road leading to the fenced area.
This hazy sunrise looks from the park out into Utah, which is 7 miles away from the park. As you can see, smoke from other states' wildfires has seeped into the area. Makes for some interesting sunrises, and by sunset, the haze had usually dissipated or totally disappeared.
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While at a roadside pullout along California State Route 127 with a view looking to the northeast across this Mojave desert setting to more distant mountain views of the Kingston Range and Valjean Hills. I felt that angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward would help create more of a sweeping view leading up to the distant ridges and peaks.
Yesterday I went for a digital photo walkabout in Nightmare Gulch, Red Rock Canyon [California] State Park. I was last there in 2019, very early in my view camera adventures. I figured it was time to take a fresh look at things.
Early in my hike, I saw that I was following a group of about a half dozen hikers. I followed them without paying much attention to my route, and they took me into a side canyon I haven't been in before. That was a good thing: it has better and more photographically accessible scenery than most places. They turned around, I continued into the canyon.
This collection of hoodoos and rills carved from sandstone embedded with dark stones was the jewel of the day. About a mile from the trailhead, so reachable with a 30# 8x10 kit on my back.
The trailhead is accessed via Iron Canyon Road. It used to be that we could pull off CA14 at the driveway to the Red Cliffs Parking Area, immediately make a right onto Iron Canyon Road, and have a fairly easy dirt road drive to the trailhead. It was possible in 2WD, so long as there was enough ground clearance. But a few years ago a flash flood washed out the road where the dry wash crosses under the highway. A mile north of the Red Cliffs entrance is a pullout that accesses the other end of the dirt road loop to Nightmare Gulch. It requires 4WD, high clearance and anti-wheel spin control. This time I took my regular cab single rear wheel diesel 4x4 Ford F350 that has a switch activated rear differential electronic locker.
There's a big movement to stop people from stacking rocks in the wild. They are disruptive of the local ecosystem.
I don't think this restriction extends to little pebble stacks like this one.
Thank you for a nice bokeh/DOF opportunity, anonymous pebble-stacker.
Fall Creek Oregon. Big Fall Creek Road was closed a few miles in. The last pullout before the road closure is probably getting a lot more visits than normal.
I enjoyed our stop there.
At an exhibit pullout along the Pinto Basin Road in Joshua Tree National Park. The view is looking to the southwest across a varied open plain of desert plant-life with yucca plants, cactus and creosote bushes. Taking advantage of some high ground that I was located on, I decided to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and create more of a sweeping view across this national park landscape. I also wanted to minimize what I felt was more of a negative space with the overcast skies.