At a roadside pullout along the Loop Drive in White Sands National Park with a view looking to the southeast to a nearby yucca plant. I decided to keep it simple in composing and lining up the image with that one plant. Centered and keeping the horizon more or less running across the middle portion of the image. I liked how the white sands highlighted the plant in the lower portion of the image. The mountains and blue skies above I also felt were a color complement to the white sands. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

Just beyond Shannon Falls and along the Sea To Sky highway is a picturesque pullout. Here, we went for a short walk and on our way back, noticed fog in the hills.

A captured image from a road side pullout along the Brady Mountain Road in the Ouachita National Forest. The view is looking to the southwest along this tree-lined road. Many of the trees were showing autumn colors in the leaves present, which is what drew me into this setting. I didn't have to include much of the overcast skies above and think about blowing any highlights with this captured image. I could compose and meter the image by focusing on the trees nearby, ensuring I was able to bring out the many colors in the leaves.

While at a roadside pullout around the state park entrance with a view looking to the southeast at nearby coast redwoods in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. My thinking in composing this image was to take advantage of an opening through the trees and capture a view of the coast redwood caught in the afternoon sunlight. The rest was metering the image so as to not blow any of the highlights in the upper portions and tree crowns of the nearby redwoods while still being able to pull out the more shadowed areas later in post production.

A setting looking to the north while taking in views across this west Texas landscape present from a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 54. Based on the PeakVisor app on my iPhone, identified points and peaks are Shumard Peak, Guadalupe Peak, El Capitan, and Hunter Peak, from left to right.

A view looking to the southwest on the main park road in Waterton Lakes National Park. This is from a roadside pullout just after the park entrance. My thought on composing this image was to angle my Nikon SLR camera so that I would capture a look across this nearby gassy meadow leading to more distant mountains. According to the PeakVisor app on my iPhone, those are of Mount Richards and Bertha Peak.

A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across gullies, canyons, and eroded formations present at Calf Creek Viewpoint in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. From this overlook, I felt I was able to create a more sweeping view across this high desert landscape.

At a roadside pulloff along Texas State Highway 54 with a view looking northwest to the Sierra Diablo Mountains. My thought in composing this image had been to find a spot where I could capture a sweeping view across this Texas high desert landscape leading up to those mountains. Other portions along this road had had smaller pullout or had a hillside obstructing the view. Any number of things that we often encounter while driving along a scenic route. Beautiful but often difficult to find those spots for an image to capture. Just before the highway headed north to the Guadalupe Mountains, I came across this curve and decided to take advantage of the pullout I had. I also decided to use the highway as a leading line into the image.

While at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 5 with a view looking to the northwest across the northern New Mexico high desert setting. Bennett Peak is the formation off in the distance.

From the Icefields Parkway, you can see a group of mountains and peaks - Mt Christie, Brussels Peak and Mt Fryatt from several good viewpoints. The best location for an elevated view is the 'Goats and Glaciers' viewpoint, which is well signed or you can choose to park anywhere on the shoulder or a couple of pullouts and walk along the Athabasca River bank.

Mt Christie is in the foreground, with Brussels Peak behind. Both mountains are challenging technical climbs and were among the last in the Rockies to be climbed - Mt Christie in 1930 and Brussels Peak in 1948.

I hope to return many times this year and get better photos from a variety of viewpoints, in different light and weather conditions.

The drive across Tioga Pass in Yosemite N.P. was really beautiful again. When I came to Tuolumne Meadow, I has to stop and capture the amazing view. I parked in a pullout and walked over to the Tuolumne River. The sky reflecting off of the water looked really good in both directions. This is the view looking towards the East and where I was heading today. When I left the park and started down to Lee Vining, the aspens were glowing yellow. Hopefully, the canyons around Bridgeport will look the same. Wish me luck!

While at a roadside pullout along the main park road with a view looking to the east in Joshua Tree National Park. This location just happen to have several Joshua Tree plants were quite extensive with their branches. I also happened to notice the moon and was able to align myself with the moon and an opening in that Joshua Tree to capture an image. My other thought in composing this image was to have those Joshua Trees fill up most of the image, but pull back a little on the focal length to include some nearby foreground to complement this national park landscape.

I Will Find Joy in Today’s Journey

Not everyone has the blessing I have received

To travel to places in the world

I have health and time to explore

Happiness can be found where I am

In seeing a road straight to a distant mountain

Wide open spaces and land to behold

Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon while at a roadside pullout in the Mojave Desert. The view is looking to the south using Kelbaker Rd as a leading line into the image with more distant views of mountains and other landscape settings. My thought on composing this image was to get down low and then capture a view looking at the road, but mainly at a more distant focal point. I wanted to have some of the nearby road in focus, but the mountains and the more distant viewpoints were what drew me into the setting. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

A setting looking to the south while taking in views across a grassy meadow to the sandstone and shale formation with Point Lookout in Grand Canyon National Park. This is at a roadside pullout along the main park road just inside the entrance. My thought on composing this image was to capture a look across this grassy meadow from some high ground I was located on and bring out a sweeping view, leading up to the Point Lookout formation, which I wanted more or less in the image center. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.

While at a parking pullout for Mahan Plaque along the Avenue of the Giants (California 254) with a view looking up and to the south at nearby coast redwoods in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

In Joshua Tree National Park at a roadside pullout with a view looking to the south across an open plain of Joshua Trees and other desert plant-life present. I decided to capture a balanced, leveled-on view with this national park landscape and take advantage of the way the snow tended to minimize colors, except for greens and yellows.

While at a roadside pullout along the main park road with a view looking to the southeast across a snow covered open plain in Joshua Tree National Park. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of that snow in the way it minimized colors, but also added shade and details across the plant-life present at this location. In the distance of the image, one can see a faint outline of Ryan Mountain. That much snow was falling that day! I felt including a portion of the mountainside, faint as it was, would help in adding a backdrop for the image captured.

In the Bleak Midwinter, by Christina Rossetti

A Sunset Makes for Such a Beautiful Thing

Daylight had guided our way

But now darkness comes in only a short time

We all get to experienced the closing of a day

And I tried to make the most of today

I definitely look forward to tomorrow

So no matter where I am on this planet Earth

There’s always a book end for the day

Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one early evening as the sun was setting in Jasper National Park. This was at a roadside pullout along the Maligne Lake Rd with a view looking to the northwest. My thought on composing this image was to create a layered look with the nearby, hillsides and then more distant mountains of Pyramid Mountain and the Victoria Cross Range. The rest was metering the image to not blow any highlights from the areas caught in sunlight, while still being able to later pull out the more shadowed areas nearby in post production.

I chose to work with Aurora HDR Pro to better bring that complete setting in the image. I later exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 6 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.

At a roadside pullout along the main park road (Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway) in Lassen Volcanic National Park. The setting is to the east looking across a meadow with a wildfire damaged forest beyond. What drew me into the setting were the mountains that had that “blue ridge” look off in the distance. It reminded me of a setting I'd seen a few years ago while driving along the Rim Road in Crater Lake National Park (as well as recently along the Blue Ridge Parkway). It had a view looking down and then across this mountain-filled landscape.

At a roadside pullout along US Hwy 62 with a view looking to the north across the mountain desert landscape present in this part of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of some high ground that I was located on and angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, creating more of a sweeping view across the sage and wild grasses leading up to the foothills. The more distant ridges and peaks in the national park would be brought higher into the image and create more of a sense of grandeur with the image captured. For the focal length, I zoomed in a little to focus in on this one portion of the desert mountain landscape to my front. I also felt that helped to minimize any flattening of the hillsides and mountains.

I Have Seen It, And I Have Truly Seen It

I have heard it, and I have truly heard it

So while there is bad and evil

As I stand here, I stand in amazement

Knowing good truly is out there

I will nourish my spirit with only wonder

And hopefully the world amongst me

Will see and hear that and stand hand in hand.

Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one morning in Great Basin National Park while at a roadside pullout along the Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive. The view is looking to the east and down the mountainside and ridge I was on and then across the Nevada desert to another set of ridges coming off Mount Moriah. My thoughts on composing this image was to create a sweeping view looking down and then across this Nevada and national park landscape. I felt that the desert floor and its relative flatness was a great contrast with the mountain ranges and ridgelines scattered across this setting. Raising the horizon a little higher into the image, I felt, also helped create more of a sense of grandeur and avoided flattening the high points present. 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.

A setting looking to the south while taking in views of a nearby forest with mostly overcast skies and a rolling hillside off into the distance. This is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64 in northern New Mexico.

At a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 163 with a view looking to the south-southwest to sandstone and mesa formations off in the distance in Monument Valley. My thought on composing this to capture a leveled on view with the horizon. I took advantage of some high ground I was located on to create a sweeping view leading up to the formations off in the distance of the image. The PeakVisor app on my iPhone identified Brighams Tomb, Stagecoach, and King-on-his-Throne.

I captured this image at a roadside pullout along the Loop Road in Big Cypress National Preserve. The view extends to the south across a pond (freshwater slough) with a forest of trees as a backdrop. In composing this image, I decided to angle my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward and raise the horizon on the far side of the pond. I liked the look of the pond stretching out to my front, while still keeping some blue skies to complement the greens, yellows, and browns in the plant-life below.

We stopped at the north pull out for viewing the Tepees formation.

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The Tepees is a area of the park named for the conical hills with banded mudstones that were thought to resemble tepees or tipis as some people spell it. Tipis are not part of the culture in this region, but some Navajos have pointed out one of the hills that resembles a male hogan.

In these badlands you are viewing the erosional pattern of the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation. Sediments of the Blue Mesa Member were deposited by a vast tropical river system that flowed through this area during the late Triassic Period similar to the Amazon River Basin today. So how do we know what this area was like 225 million years ago? Several characteristics about a rock - like color, rock type, stacking patterns, and fossils they contain - give clues to geologists and tell a very specific story about past environments and how those environments shifted and changed through time.

Colorful badlands meet the Mother Road in Arizona's high desert.

Looking like pastel mounds of Neapolitan ice cream, Northern Arizona's Painted Desert is a vast, striated badlands that extends some 150 miles from the eastern end of the Grand Canyon into Petrified Forest National Park. A geologist's other-worldly paradise, the colorful hills, flat-topped mesas and sculptured buttes of the Painted Desert are primarily made up of the Chinle Formation, mainly river-related deposits dating back some 200 million years. Inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years, the multi-hued sweep of pigmented rock in the arid high desert received its present name in the 1540s from the Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, who called the area El Desierto Pintado.

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Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42Â km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east-west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The park received 644,922 recreational visitors in 2018.

The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.

Navajo Nation 2025

At a roadside pullout along Interstate 5, looking to north-northeast towards Mount Shasta. This was at the Mount Shasta Vista Point. While I did want to zoom in with the focal length to have more of Mount Shasta to fill the image, I also wanted to include some foreground interest with the nearby forest of evergreens that stretched across this northern California setting.

It was as I began working on the image in post-production that I then decided to once again try out the sky replacement setting in Photoshop with this image. The blue skies with the clouds definitely seemed appropriate for this northern New Mexico setting in what I had wanted to experience in person. So the skies are from an image I captured in Sonora, TX, a few years ago with the blue skies and clouds, but all else is captured with my Nikon D850 SLR camera in New Mexico. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 7 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

This location is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64 with a view looking to the southeast to Shiprock off in the distance.

Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña - Escocia - Tierras Altas - Carretera A838 - Passing place

ENGLISH

A single-track road or one-lane road is a road that permits two-way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another (although sometimes two compact cars can pass). This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. To accommodate two-way traffic, many single-track roads, especially those officially designated as such, are provided with PASSING PLACES (United Kingdom) or pullouts or turnouts (United States), or simply wide spots in the road, which may be scarcely longer than a typical automobile using the road. The distance between passing places varies considerably, depending on the terrain and the volume of traffic on the road. The railway analog for passing places are passing loops.

The term is widely used in SCOTLAND, particularly the HIGHLANDS, to describe such roads. PASSING PLACES are generally marked with a diamond-shaped white sign with the words "passing place" on it. New signs tend to be square rather than diamond-shaped, as diamond signs are also used for instructions to tram drivers in cities. On some roads, especially in Argyll and Bute, passing places are marked with black-and-white-striped posts. Signs remind drivers of slower vehicles to pull over into a passing place (or opposite it, if it is on the opposite side of the road) to let following vehicles pass, and most drivers oblige. The same system is found very occasionally in rural England and Wales. Sometimes two small vehicles can pass one another at a place other than a designated passing place.

Some A-class and B-class roads in the Highlands are still single-track, although many sections have been widened for the sake of faster travel. In 2009, the A830 "Road to the Isles" and A851 on Skye have had their single-track sections replaced with higher-quality single-carriageway road.

At a roadside pullout along Kelbaker Rd with a view looking to the south-southeast to distant peaks and ridges of the Southeast Mojave Ranges with the Calumet Mountains. My thought on composing this image was to zoom in as far as I could with the focal length and capture a look beyond some nearby sage bush that I would use as a foreground. I wanted to capture that view to a more distant portion of the Mojave Desert that one rarely sees with the American West except in movies or older images. With the sun starting to set in the western skies, it helped to bring out shadows cast and details present with the mountains and dried up lake bed. I felt the clouds helped to bring out a contrast to the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image and add to this western California setting.

Jackson Glacier is the 7th largest remaining glacier in GNP. (There are only 25 remaining glaciers in the park compared to 150 in 1850). This was taken on easy pullout view on the Going to the Sun Road. We almost didn't stop at this overlook because we thought it wouldn't be worth the view. How wrong can I be? The trees seem to open up just enough to frame the dying giant. I will forever be happy to say that I was there to witness them before they disappear. It seems nothing stays for long in the world we live in. Get out there.

Mike D.

The evening S train heads through the 35th Avenue plant as it heads for a 44th Avenue crew change. All the while a pullout job with the 1594 continues its daily tasks.

While at a roadside pullout along the Akamina Parkway in Waterton Lakes National Park. The setting is with a view looking to the southwest.

I liked this grouping of rocks for adding foreground detail during a sunset outing at Lake McDonald.

Late in the week we had a sunset outing part way up the Going To The Sun Road along Lake McDonald. The pullout had a parking area and a pebble beach with room for us to spread out. The colors that evening were not spectacular, but there was a moment of intense color after the sun got low enough to catch the underside of the clouds. I found this small grouping of rocks a short walk from the parking area where I set up my tripod and captured this image.

In Joshua Tree National Park at a roadside pullout looking to the southwest 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 mountainside that was partially hidden in storm clouds moving in.

And a productive photographic 2025 TO YOU ALL

This shot: Crowfoot Glacier AB Canada

From the Icefields Parkway AB

About 34 km (21 miles) northwest of Lake Louise, the Crowfoot Glacier is one of the first glaciers you see on the Icefields Parkway. Situated on the northeastern side of Crowfoot Mountain, the glacier overlooks Bow Lake---if you stop at the Bow Lake pullout, you can see the glacier and mountain on the other side of the lake. Runoff from the glacier flows into the Bow River, which runs from Banff National Park to the City of Calgary and beyond to the prairies.

While at a roadside pullout along Olivas Ranch Road with a view looking to the west across a desert landscape. This is in the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area. The backdrop of mountains is part of the Mount Whitney Group range of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Lone Pine Peak is probably the most recognizable one in the image middle, just left of center. Mount Whitney is in the middle image, just right of center. By angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, I felt I was able to create a more sweeping view across the desert landscape leading up to the mountains.

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As you start climbing the Waimea Canyon Drive the pullouts offer some wonderful views in all directions. Then, this one comes on the right and the view seems to be endless ... #etbtsy

Farmland in the Canyon

At a roadside pullout around the The Inn at Death Valley with a view looking to the southwest to a sea level elevation sign in Death Valley National Park. My thought on composing this image was to pull back on the focal length to include more of the surrounding landscape while also including the mountain backdrop with the Panamint Range.

At a roadside pullout along the Boynton Pass Road in Coconino National Forest. The view is looking to the north-northwest with trees and distant cliff face of an unnamed mesa and eroded formations towering above.

A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across ridges and peaks of the Northern Blue Ridge while at a roadside pullout along the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. This is located at the Trayfoot Mountain Overlook.

A setting looking to the south-southwest while taking in views across a nearby grassy meadow to more distant ridges and peaks of the Northern Lewis Range with Allen Mountain, Wynn Mountain, Cracker, Mount Siyeh. This roadside pullout is along the main park road in Glacier National Park in the Many Glacier area. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of some high ground I was located on an angle my Nikon SLR camera so that I could capture a sweeping view across this meadow. I would then have a balance between the mountains off in the distance with that meadow. I also wanted to minimize what I felt was the more negative space in the overcast skies above. I did though expose the image so that I could pull some of the details out later on in post-production.

Wind storm over the Mesquite Flat sand dunes, captured as the sun set in Death Valley Sunday night. On this night the angle to the setting sun worked out perfectly to shoot from the paved pullout at Devil's Cornfield.

- Robert Browning.

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Driving through Yosemite Valley, you will come across some breathtaking views that are perfect for photography. However, some of these views do not have pullouts, making it difficult to stop and capture the beauty. One such spot is on the Southside Drive, just beyond the Pohono Bridge, where you can see Bridalveil Falls. Although I had taken pictures of this view before, I had never seen it during Fall when the trees are adorned in spectacular colors. To capture this image, I had to stand in the middle of the road. It was quite challenging to take the perfect shot due to the heavy traffic in Yosemite. Fortunately, I was able to snap a few pictures during a lull in traffic. I was particularly drawn to the colors in the image, which added an extra element to the scene. The smoke from controlled burns in the valley also provided a unique and atmospheric quality.

I'm driving along uninspired and without a plan but determined to blow the dust off the camera and somehow ended up inside Mount Rainier National Park, I'll pause while you pick your jaw up off the floor.....

....when out of the corner of my eye I see the wide swath of boulders that is the riverbed of the Nisqually River in the middle of which was a stand of dead trees, I brake...

I've never pulled into this pullout and don't know exactly where I am and I'm trying to compose something when I see a slight trail down into the river, I go down...

just after fording a shallow stream the clouds part and low and behold the peak of Mount Rainier stands hovering high above. Screw those trees!!

While at a roadside pullout along the Blue Ridge Parkway with a view looking to the southwest and down the road. This is at the PunchBowl Mountain Overlook. In composing this image, I chose to get down low and capture a look with the center stripes as a leading line into the image with the forest of trees all around.

While in Joshua Tree National Park at a roadside pullout with a view looking to the southeast across a snow covered, mountain desert landscape. I decided to angle my Nikon SLR, camera slightly downward and create more of a sweeping view across this setting, leading up to the hillsides with rock formations. I also liked the difference between the lower portion of the image with the snow covered landscape with that of the "drama" in the clouds that would soon be bringing more snow to this area.

With the low water and most of the leaves gone at Oxbow Bend, I had to get creative with what I had left. The next pullout above Oxbow had plenty of trees with brightly colored leaves still hanging on.

A setting looking to the north-northwest 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 at a roadside pullout along the Blue Ridge Parkway with a view looking to the south across the ridges and peaks present of the N NC Blue Ridge Crest. This is at the Bear Den Overlook. I angled my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward, so that I could bring out more of a sweeping view across this mountain landscape. I felt raising the horizon would bring out more of a sense of grandeur present in the image. I still wanted to keep some of the blue skies and clouds in the upper portion of the image as I felt they were a good color contrast to the earth-tones present in the lower portion of the image.

I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 7 where I added a Polarization, Foliage, and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

While at a roadside pullout along Alberta Provincial Highway No 22 with a view looking to the northwest across some farmland prairie grass to more distance ridges and peaks with Pyriform Mountain, Junction Mountain, and Mount Burns.