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Just before Christmas I posted a picture of the Imperial Sand Dunes in California with three off-road vehicles and their riders blasting across the dunes. Well that was on the South side of I-8. This is from the same spot, but on the North side of the interstate. If you missed the other picture, or want more information about the Imperial Sand Dunes, I've included the link below to that picture. The other picture has a link with information about the dunes.
This is in Northern California, as winter brings more rain, the countryside will turn green, not quite there yet.
On my way home for the weekend after a hectic retreat from Los Angeles. Pulled over near Paragonah Utah to take pictures of these irrigation sprinklers back-lit from the midmorning sun. Temperatures a little below freezing, creating icicles and ice covered plants.
My first Macro Monday. I have been waiting for a good time to squeeze this shot in. Saw the theme for this week and decided it was a good time to join the group and post this picture. This was taken while waiting at Golden States Foods in City of Industry, California.
Took this last month in Arkansas about 40 miles from my brother's home. Kinda liked the lines and the dust being blown in the distance. Today seemed like a good day to post this.
Ok, this is the last one of these for awhile. I've got other stuff I want to share, but at some point I'll post a few more, a couple more of my favorites.
This is also from the Upper Antelope Canyon, Page Arizona. I was wondering what I'd title it, when it hit me that this looked a bit like some fiery eye.
The sun broke through what and been a cloudy stormy day. Unfortunately it was near the end of a long tough drive from Idaho to California. This shot was taken in Nevada.
This is a picture taken just left of "stop...look...run...". If you look at the clouds on the left side of that picture, you'll see those same clouds on the right side of this one. Obviously same location off US-95 in Nevada, south of the town Fallon.
In Los Angeles tonight, but heading towards Reno, NV tomorrow afternoon, and more winter driving I'm sure
Below are links to a couple of truck crashes from the past couple of days. Over the years I've taken many crash pictures, mostly of trucks, even though I see way more automobile crashes. I might do an Album just for crashes someday.
From the archive, took this back in 2012 while at Ripon, CA. I've got a few others from that sunset, but only one with just clouds, sky, and light. To me it's more of an abstract than sunset shot.
I took this behind one of the rest areas in Washington. As I looked at this picture later, I could imagine some large predator patiently waiting for a rabbit or maybe a deer.
Yes I am missing winter. Over 100 degrees most of today. Spent 30 minutes cranking the landing gear down on a preloaded trailer I picked up in Sacramento this afternoon. (The landing gear is what holds up the front of the trailer when it's not attached to a truck) Some idiot had it raised as high as it would go. No reason for that except as a bad joke. Anyway, looking through pictures for something to edit with Lightroom and Silver Efex. Thanks Glenn Waring for telling me about this program and how to get to it once I had added it to Photoshop and Lightroom. I posted an unedited version of this last year in December.
Here's a link to the unedited version
Took this a month ago about 60 miles east of Winnemucca Nevada on I-80. Needed to go wide to get everything I wanted into this picture. I was too far away to do a in camera panorama shot, but with a 42 megapixel sensor, felt pretty safe just cropping the top and bottom. (90% of the time I don't see any benefit to having that many pixels, but it does come in handy when cropping) This was the first snow I'd seen this winter, but I knew it was just the beginning.
Took this last October in Fillmore Utah. I had stopped at Carl Jr's for a bite to eat and afterwards walked down a nearby dirt road and then into the field to take a few pictures. Fillmore was the orginal State Capital of Utah.
This was taken near Canyonville, Oregon. I had a devil of a time getting down the very steep banks without falling. I had my gear in a pack so my hands were free to cling to trees and rocks. I knew the light would be difficult because it was early afternoon, so I brought my Lee filters. Getting up was actually a little easier using all four limbs to scurry back up.
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.
Took this last December off CA-58 just West of Tehachapi California. I never posted it because my sensor had lots of dust on it and so needed some cleaning up in post. Now that I have the MacBookPro and Lightroom CC figured I had no excuse. Only took a few minutes, hopefully I got all the spots.
Near Lake Point, Utah. The Great Salt Lake is on the opposite side of I-15, this may have been part of the GSL before the freeway was built.
The stream rushing down Little Cottonwood Canyon. Another picture from my last home time back in July. I'll be home again tomorrow. Planning to go up one of the canyons, maybe Mill Creek this time.
Pulled over to get a valley shot as a bit of sun broke through the clouds on this valley just a few miles south of the Love's Truck Stop near Roseburg, OR. Lots of rain has definitely added to the vibrant green that is always prevalent in southern Oregon.
This was from my trip to Florida near the end of March. I had meant to post it, but forgot until I saw it tonight as I was searching for something else, but found this instead.
Off I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass in Washington is Keechelus Lake, a natural lake that has an earth dam on its eastern shore that was built in the early 1900's to control the flow of water going into the Yakima River, which is a tributary to the Columbia River. Most of what I could find online seems to speculate that the trees on the western (note: There's actually stumps all around the lake, but the majority are on the western side.) side of the lake were cut down, rather than have them die when the dammed lake is full of water. Apparently the cold water over so many years has preserved, or petrified the stumps. I think they're beautiful, and yet somewhat disturbing at the same time. I've been wanting to photograph them for several years, so my last time through the area I parked and took some pictures. I'll be posting a closer view of the stumps sometime soon. For now here's a shot of the western stump area, the lake isn't shown, but is out of the frame to the left.
The light was good, and I was noticing how the weeds along US-97 a bit south of Biggs were kinda glowing, so I decided to see if I could get a decent shot.
Went up Little Cottonwood Canyon last evening. The lower areas I've been photographing were disappointingly nearly dry. Almost turned around to go home, but decided to go further towards the top to see if I might find something to photograph. This area had water, shallow but something at least, and the light looked pretty good. So I walked around taking various shots, while crossing the stream back and forth where I could find stones to step on.
Oh, in case you can't tell, this shot is looking down stream.
Took this back in April while in Bald Knob Arkansas with my brother Ralph David. I posted a few pictures back in April from this outing.
Had to check out Little Cottonwood Canyon while home for some Rest & Relaxation. Found a couple of new spots and was happy to see the water is down from last month, I think it will be perfect for the shots I'm looking in August.
Changing shape and directions as the wind choreographed the dance of the grasses. Hopefully this picture captured that sense of movement.
I'm admittedly not a great bird photographer, but being in Florida and seeing so many different varieties of birds, cranes today in particular, I couldn't resist taking a few shots. Not the greatest, but kinda fun to do.
Spent the night across the highway at the not so plush rest area in Luning, Nevada. This used to be a magnesium mining town, a few people still live in town.
This is the building next to the other Luning shot of a front porch.
Luning, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The beautiful Oberbaumbrücke . When I took this picture it was raining and very windy so I am very happy that I could realize this image.
Took this shot this morning behind the Pilot truckstop in Von Ormey, TX. The photo I took of the horses was just about 100 yards to the left of this small lake. Texas is so green this year, lots of rain.
I've passed these oldish pumps (Grass Valley off the Oregon Scenic Byway US 97 in Oregon obviously) many times but always during times when the light was not good. This day the sun was setting so I pulled over and took some pictures. Not sure this was the best one photographically, but I liked the fact that the price of fuel could be read.