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Just north of Milepost 1247 Alaska Highway, only 290 miles into the trip.
December 10, 2018.
I wrote in my trip log: "This subarctic winter boreal country is so, so beautiful, I can't make any time today."
9 Days, 4 Dogs, 2,558 Miles. Day 2 (Tok AK to Haines Jct YT).
In January 1997, severe floods closed railroad lines through both the Feather River and Sacramento River Canyons. For a couple of weeks, Union Pacific was compelled to detour a large amount of traffic over the Modoc Line. Ironically, UP planned to close the line later in the year and then abandon it.
While the detours were in effect, UP would typically run them in fleets of five or six trains between Klamath Falls, Oregon and Wendel, California. Once the last train in a fleet arrived at an endpoint, a new fleet of trains would begin moving in the opposite direction. Trains generally operated at restricted speed, since the line had no block signal system.
For railfans, in addition to being a turkey shoot, the January 1997 detours were one last chance to see a significant amount of traffic on the Modoc Line. At the beginning of July 1997, the line was permanently closed to through traffic.
On Saturday morning, January 11th, a westbound Modoc detour is rounding Likely Loop, as seen from a pullout on US 395. This train has been descending from the summit at Sage Hen on a grade that ranges up to 1.6%. It will reach level trackage a couple of miles ahead at Likely.
Today, this right of way is a hiking trail.
At a roadside pullout on the Basin Road into the Chisos Mountains with a view looking to the southeast. My thinking in composing this image was a layered approach with nearby plant-life in the foreground and then the mountainside and peak with blue skies above. The latter would be a color contrast to complement the more earth-tone present in the lower part of the image.
At a roadside pullout along the main park road with a view looking to the northwest across Joshua Tree and other plant-life present in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. Snow was definitely starting to fall as one can see from the landscape and road itself. Normally I attempt to minimize including man-made objects like roads or people in my national park images, but here I felt it added as both a leading line as well as adding a layer to the foreground leading up to the more distant hillsides and rock formations.
Yesterday was a good day to be out with the camera, despite those (photogenic) clouds you see.
I drove from my Central WA home further into Eastern WA to Drumheller Channels, a national natural landmark and a part of the Channeled Scablands along the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail.
I fulfilled a bucket list item. Ever since I'd seen photos of people standing atop the amazing hexagonal columnar basalts in this area, I wanted to do the same thing. So, I drove to the gravel road leading to Crab Creek Marsh Unit #3, parked in a pullout, hiked along that trail you see below, then up through a sort of cleft in the basalt wall to finally stand atop the basalt columns. It was a little tricky with the climbing part, being short and dumpy and lugging a camera backpack and tripod, but where there's a will, there's a way.
The scenery is spectacular and the geology amazing.
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From a roadside pullout along the Main Park Rd with a view looking to the southwest across Creosote Bushes and other desert plant-life present. And then off in the distance were the towering peaks of the Chisos Mountains. My thinking in composing this image was to have a balanced view across the national park landscape present in the foreground, while leading up to the mountains and peaks. The blue skies above would then be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 4. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 4 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.
Vintage fire truck cab … open-air by design. Note the red bubble light atop the windshield. Funny also to see one of those pullout trays on the dashboard labeled “ash tray,” which clearly predates the current era.
To enter the north part of Naikoon Provincial Park a person drives down a winding track with occasional pullouts for passing through an old temperate rainforest with moss hanging off the branches like an old stretched out sweater.
A snowmachiner's dream. Turnagain Pass Is covered in snow that is 15 to 20 feet deep. For some perspective, the two small dots at the base of the mountain, on the right, are snowmachiner's. This is a 19 verticle image panorama.
A bit of a reverse take on Wild Goose Island in Glacier National Park. Most shots are from the overlook looking West but I decided to shoot this looking East from a pullout on Going to the Sun road maybe 45 minutes after the sun had set.
While at a roadside pullout along the Avenue of the Giants (California 254) with a view looking up and to the southeast at nearby coast redwoods in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
A setting looking to the south while taking in views across a field of wildflowers to a more distant hillside in Lincoln National Forest. This was at a roadside pullout on a graveled road heading to the Ski Cloudcroft area. In composing this image, I decided to get down low and capture a look across and then beyond this field. I decided to have the grassy meadow and hillside fill most of the image with only a little bit of skies above. I found the latter to be overcast and really didn't add much to the image or setting.
Herbert Lake is right along the Icefields Parkway north of Lake Louise. It is so close to the road that you need to be there early enough to use the small pullout before the guard rail, or access it from the parking area further down -- and make your way back for the glassy reflection of the Bow Mountains. It is special in the morning but In the breezy afternoon you might just drive right by it without a glance!
Spring is easily my favorite season to shoot in Yosemite. After shooting for several years in Winter and Summer, last year was my first trip up in April. As I made my way through the park, I was immediately struck by how green the meadows and the trees were. The falls were full, the river was much higher, and there were blossoms everywhere you turned. I was also amazed by the amount of late afternoon sun that was able to make its way into park. During the Winter months, the valley floor grows dark quickly and the last rays of the day fall on El Capitan and Half Dome. But during early Spring, the sun makes its way between the surrounding peaks and is able to spill onto the valley floor well into the early evening hours.
This year, I knew I only had one chance to make it into the park before Summer. There has been little snow in the park this year, and I am guessing that meadows will be brown and the falls will be dry by mid June. Even though conditions were less than ideal, i.e. no clouds during the day and too much moon at night for the Milky Way, I headed up regardless knowing that my opportunities would be limited this year. I had also noticed on one of the webcam shots that the dogwoods were in full bloom. So in spite of the fact that I didn't really have time, I headed up for my one and only chance to shoot the park during the Spring this year.
One of my favorite spots to shoot the dogwood blossoms is between the Valley View pullout and Pohono bridge in the Western side of the park. As the sunlight was disappearing quickly I headed down towards the bridge, shooting the blossoms along the roadside as I walked. As I grew closer to the bridge, I heard a strange buzzing sound and noticed a newly married couple sitting on the bridge. As I turned the corner, I saw my first drone in the park as a photographer was using it to film the couple kissing on the bridge while several other photographers looked on. From what I understand, drones are banned from Yosemite, so I was surprised that this particular photographer didn't seem to be concerned, especially since one of his cohorts was tazered by a park ranger in Hawaii just a few days before for a similar offense.
Eventually the guy with the drone got his shot, grew nervous and took off in a hurry leaving the rest of us with a chance to shoot the late afternoon sun. The dogwood blossoms were in full bloom on both sides of the bridge and I took several shots before heading off to grab some dinner and heading up to Glacier Point, which was already open due to the lack of snow this year.
This lady was on the side of a road on a viewpoint pullout beautifully playing her Harp. She was selling CD's as well. In Ireland.
A setting looking to the west-northwest while taking in views across meadow present at Bruhel Point. This was at a parking area pullout at along the Pacific Coast Highway. What I wanted to capture with this image was a look across the meadow to the waves coming into the shore along the Pacific coastline. By angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, I felt I was able to create more of a sweeping view leading up to the horizon. That in turn would bring the horizon a little higher into the image and minimize what I felt was more of a negative space with the blue skies above.
While at a roadside pullout along the main park road in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park with a view looking to the southwest. The view is looking across the waters of Lake Sherburne.
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 Setting Hen and Eagle Mesa.
While at a roadside pullout along the main park road with a view looking to the south across the mountain desert landscape present in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. By angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, I felt I was able to bring out more of a sweeping view leading up to Quail Mountain and Mount Minerva Hoyt.
Unscheduled stop en route to Osoyoos, British Columbia, via the Crowsnest Highway (Hwy 3). Luckily the roads were empty so I managed to reverse in to a pullout for the shot. Nature is stunning!
At a roadside pullout along Colorado Highway 149 with a view looking to the northwest to a small field/patch of blue/violet wildflowers in Rio Grande National Forest. After taking in views of the Rio Grande and nearby San Juan Mountains, I happened to turn around and notice these wildflowers. I maneuvered around and down to capture something that best filled up this image.
The bird in the foreground, with the spotty bib, is the female. The two behind her, with orange eyes, are her nearly-grown chicks.
Although their nest is right along the road, next to a pullout so surely they're used to people way down there on the grown below their enormous nest, the female called nearly continually while I tried to get some shots and move on. Then the kids decided to join her, but the male, who likely was out fishing, did not return in spite of their alarms.
The photo is significantly cropped.
Photographed on Grayling Creek off Hebgen Road, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park
At a roadside pullout a little before the visitor center in the national park. The view is looking to the northwest. While capturing this image in the direction of the sun, I was able to meter and adjust the shutter speed enough, so that I could later pull out some of the highlights in the clouds and blue skies while still working with the less brighter and more earth tone shades in the lower portion of the image.
Tried my hand at taking a panoramic shot of the area where Balanced Rock is. I stopped at a road pullout around the time the sun set in the cloudless sky.
Explored January 14, 2023
While at a pullout just before driving in through the main park entrance with a view looking to the north. This was my first time to be in the national park and see those famous yucca tree plants. Here I captured a view looking across this open desert plain, leading up to the more distant rock formation hillside. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.
I've been reading the 2021 Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Annual Report for an article I'm writing for the National Parks Traveler. I've gotten to the part about Yellowstone National Park geology, which brought to mind some images I'd captured while visiting the park this past February.
I had stopped at a pullout between the Lamar Valley and Tower Junction to photograph this freezing landscape with those large brown rocks. Those rocks are glacial erratics - rocks (often boulder-sized) that were picked up by a glacier and transported to different locations (often long distances away), then dropped as the glacier melted.
Pretty cool, huh?
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i took these shots this morning and just this afternoon three birds, similar to the one on the right, went missing... i bet this one here was saying goodbye to its cage mates....
no... i did not let them go!
While at a roadside pullout along the Ely Highway (Utah State Route 21) with a view looking to the northwest and down a long stretch of highway leading up to Wah Wah Mountains. I've come across a few images over the past several years of with ideas similar to this one with a long stretch of highway, captured somewhere in the American West. I've have been similar settings in Utah heading down south to Moab or east of Death Valley National Park. All beautiful! Here I was heading out west to great basin national Park. I definitely had to stop to capture one here. My thoughts on composing this image was to get down low, using the LCD screen with LiveView on my Nikon D850 SLR camera. That would allow me to get closer to the road and use the LCD screen to line up and compose the image. I could capture a look across and down the highway and raise the horizon slightly higher into the image. I think that would bring out more of a sense of grandeur with those mountains off in the distance. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 5. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 5 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.
One image I have saved that gave me the idea for this image was here (500px.com/photo/5654475/Vintage-Travel-by-David-Bouchat/).
A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views of a Joshua Trees from a roadside pullout along the main park road. This is in Joshua Tree National Park. My thought on composing this image was to use a portrait orientation and then pull back on the focal length so that I could fill this one Joshua tree with most of the image. There would be some negative space with the skies above, but I wanted to include the sun in the skies, even though it was mostly filtered out with the overcast skies that morning.
Captured at a roadside pullout along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park around the Bow Lake area.
At a parking area pullout at Bruhel Point along the Pacific Coast Highway with a view looking to the north. My thinking in composing this image was to capture that view looking along the coastline with the waves coming rushing into the shore. The angle was such that it allowed me to include some of the nearby grassy meadow as a foreground while having the hillsides stretching off to a distant horizon and using that as a leading line into the image. 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.
The NASA SLS block 1 on launchpad 39b for the Artemis I mission. I was up early and waiting in the que at the Canaveral National Seashore gate at 6am to get a shot with the sunrise and the spotlights on. This is the view from pullout 5 on Playalinda Beach Road and the rocket is about 3 miles away. In the distance on the right you can see a SpaceX Falcon 9 vertical and ready for launch at Pad 39a. I was lucky later on this day to get a photo 3 rockets vertical and to get an opportunity to see the Falcon 9 pictured here launch.
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I went out to Banff yesterday evening with my friend Shawn to catch sunset at Castle Mt. We quickly stopped at the pullout a few kms before Castle Junction because the light on the Sawback range was phenomenal! Castle Mt. was faintly visible through a squall behind us as well. Unfortunately, this was the best light that we got, for once we reached Castle Mt. the sun had gone down behind a cloud bank to the west and our dreams of golden light on Castle's ramparts were dashed. Still, you have to work with what you get, and fortunately we found a cool spot along the 1A on the way home for some more shots. Thanks for looking!
- Henry Ward Beecher.
Big Sur has been an obsession even before I ever set foot in the state of California. And it was also one of the first locations that we explored after moving to the beautiful state. Over the years, the wife and I spent quite a lot of time at this location and got to know the place at an intimate level. One of the quirks that stood out immediately about BigSur is the climate pattern where summer months seemed foggy and wet while winter tends to have clear skies and exceptional conditions for photography.
While on a trip to Big Sur, I came across this beautiful stretch of coast. The road had a small pullout but by no means close to some famous or iconic stops on the highway. My reason for stopping here was to check out the coastal cypress trees, which are pretty unique to the area. While setting up my gear, I noticed the colors on the cliff walls, and I think this was the first time I started to pay attention to the colorful nature of the lichens of Big Sur. I liked how the piece of land was jutting out into the ocean and the contrast between the surf and the incredible blues of the water.
I finally got a free day open this weekend to take a drive. I haven't had a chance to check out the snow this winter and today was a perfect day to take a drive up the hill. The wildflowers were blooming in the foothills and a storm just dumped a few inches of fresh snow.
This view is a few miles up the mountain from Shaver Lake. This pullout had a nice view of the snow and the lake. The drive was pretty amazing as I reached Tamarack Pass. Snow was still covering all the pine trees and it made a magical experience. I can't wait for Spring Break to take some more photo trips in the Valley.
An image of the Mountains to the East of Hope, Alaska from across the Turnagain Arm. Taken from the Beluga Point pullout on the Seward Highway. In the limited daylight hours of January and December, unless the weather is super overcast, there almost always seems to be a spectacular light show at the beginning and end of the day.
A setting looking to the southwest while on US Hwy 385 at a roadside pullout and taking in views across desert landscape present with Santiago Peak off in the distance. Composing the image was a matter of balancing the desert landscape with its earth-tones with that of the distant mountain peak and ridgelines and blue skies above. I kept the windmill a little off centered as I wanted to have that also in balance with Santiago Peak. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
On Tioga Road at a pullout with a view looking to the southwest to ridges and peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains in this part of Inyo National Forest. My thinking in composing this image was to take advantage of the road and center stripe as a leading line into the image. WIth pretty much no traffic on the road at that time, I had a few moments to set up and then line up to center the road leading up to the mountains. I didn’t think getting down low to capture the gravel and that perspective was important, but I did use LiveView to get a lower point of view in the camera. 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 east 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. Route 163 with a view looking to Stagecoach and King-on-his-Throne.
From a roadside pullout somewhere that I doubt I could locate again. I thought it was nifty how the two prominent stacks out in the ocean seemed to compliment the shoreline landscape.
Sunset overlooking rugged coastline and sea stacks in Samuel H. Boardman State Park, Oregon, USA.
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During my recent to NE Georgia, the last stop of our five waterfall day was Raper Creek Falls. The water was flowing pretty well. To get a frontal view, you had to get into the stream, which was a bit high. We didn't have our water boots and didn't feel like having soaked feet for our 2.5 hr ride home. Wimps, I know.
This waterfall can be a bit challenging to find the first time but there is a small pullout large enough for two cars. The hike is very short, maybe a tenth of a mile, if that. But the last part is steep and always seems to be very muddy. Be careful at the bottom as it's very slippery and muddy as well. During my next visit this fall I'll have to remember my water boots.
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From a roadside pullout around the Fern Spring area with a view looking to the south-southeast to a nearby forest of tall trees present in this part of Yosemite National Park.
While at a roadside pullout along Badwater Road with a view looking to the north. This location is in Death Valley National Park. The setting is the mountain desert landscape present along the basin area around Badwater. I wanted to capture a view looking across that to some of the peaks and ridges coming off Mount Perry and going north to Artist Palette Peak.
A look forward at a roadside pullout along Artists Drive with a view looking to the northeast. This is in Death Valley National Park.
There Are Places That Are Truly Beautiful
They take your breath away seeing the wonder
But you come to realize every place is amazing
In its own special way
So I will make a point to visit those beautiful places
And all the other amazing ones around the world
Stopping from time to time to smell some roses!
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon in at a roadside pullout along U.S. Highway 163 with a view looking to the south to the sandstone formations and buttes present in this part of Monument Valley. My thought on composing this image was to capture a balanced, leveled-on view with the horizon and use the high ground I was located on to capture a sweeping view across this high desert landscape to the sandstone formations off in the distance. According to the PeakVisor app on my iPhone, they are from right to left: Brighams Tomb, King-on-his-Throne, and Stagecoach.
- Anthony Burgess.
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Visiting Alaska in winter, with a winter storm on our heels, was an unforgettable experience. Although we couldn’t see most of the scenery around us due to cloud cover and fog, we caught glimpses of fantastic scenes whenever it cleared. On our first day in Anchorage, we drove down the Seward Highway South and discovered a pullout where many people rode snowmobiles. We spent some time watching them enjoy the few hours of sunlight left when I noticed that between runs, there were moments when the slope was empty. So, I grabbed my camera and took a few shots when the opportunity arose. I loved how the trees and snowmobile tracks provided a striking scale to the mountains behind them while the sunlight filtered through the clouds, creating beautiful patterns on the snow.
An awesome scene the artist paints, a winter wonderland
A setting looking to the north-northwest while taking in views across a mountain desert landscape, covered with recently fallen snow. This is at a roadside pullout not from from the Sheep Pass campground area in Joshua Tree National Park. My thought on composing this image was symmetry. A balance with the one large Joshua Tree in the center of the image and then pulling back on the focal length to include desert plant-life around it. Well, I did feel that the overcast and snowy skies were a negative space, I felt they also helped to highlight that one Joshua Tree and bring it more into prominence in the image.
The caption used is from a poem.
Winter's Artist, By Suzanne Bates