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Another car trail shot, this time as the sun was setting, this is shot through a Hoya ND8 screw filter and then a Cokin ND2 & ND4 grad to even the sky.
Exposure was brightened a tad after shot
Virginia Creeper Trial between White Top Mountain and Damascus, VA.
I took a few too many photos to "light up" the bike trail with my new GPS tracker.
An amazing loop trail, White Domes has tons of interesting rock formations in various colors. The unique landscape has led to it being used in films as well. Ruins from the 1966 movie "The Professionals" are visible in the mid-right part of this photo.
This is my first attempt at photographing star trails, from a field on the southwest side of Shawville, Quebec. The position of Polaris (α UMi) is obvious, and the constellation of Cassiopeia is in plain view. The bright star at left is Dubhe (α UMa). Mirfak (α Per), Almach (γ And) and Mirach (β And) can be seen near the horizon at right.
I took a total of 26 exposures (12-24mm Nikkor DX lens at 12mm, f/4, ISO 200), each around two minutes long, between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. I then stacked the photos in Photoshop CS4 to arrive at this composite image. The gaps in the star trails are a result of the 15-second gap between each two-minute exposure. (No, I didn't use an intervalometer; I timed this manually.) Next time I should try a shorter gap for smoother star trails.
I shot this during the Perseid meteor shower, but no meteor passing in front of the camera was bright enough to turn up in this photo. I was kind of hoping one would.
It's clearly a good trail for exercise, this is the path that circles McIntosh Lake. The west end of the circuit is in the distance. There are picnic tables, a bench under a huge cottonwood and a convenient outhouse for those who are willing to put in the effort. I made it out here twice on the weekend. It's not always easy doing what you need to do when one option is relaxing in the shade around McIntosh Lake Park. Some other folks are trying to up their health and longevity if not their knees. I come out here to end up lopsided by carrying the full frame camera with 200mm zoom and monopod. Others are into dogs and Cokes. In the distance across the fields is Hygiene with the silo on main Street. Picnics in the park are dandy. The sky looks pretty foreboding and the humditty is already up. Smoking pot in public places is outlawed, at least in Denver but now we can have that same crowd in parks using the dis-solvable strips. There's never enough slack for some dodging exercise.
I am near the southwest end of McIntosh Park even though the path ahead continues on and surrounds the lake entirely. That allows for a 3.5 mile walk for folks getting their exercise on. It connects with the path up to the McIntosh/Lohr Heritage Farm Museum north, across the lake from here.
R.M.N.P. is in the distance and includes the peaks. Longs, next to the tree, is kissed by the clouds and extends past the Twin Sisters over the gal. They are well melted down. We here at Longmont always know directions as long as we can spot the mountain range. The Rockies are white now and more storms are on the way. Just right of the big hanging branch is Lyons and the routes up the South and North St.Vrain Valleys. Careful, the north valley road still closes for an hour or more at a time for road repairs. GwenDeanne is still hopping mad. A trip up to Estes and the Park may suffer delays. I bet the trip up the Thompson from Loveland sucks worse. Still in all, Colorado was rated the second smartest state but with the pot heads moving in, we must be fading fast. We should win the Peckerwood Award soon and rival the bottom few states.
This was taken on August 28, when we were still getting so much smoke from the Canadian wildfires. This is on the Mickelson Trail close to the Rochford Road, and in between Rochford and Mystic.
I have a need for a "trail jack", that I can use to lift Apollo when I have to change a tube while away from home. More commonly, I need a convenient way to get the rear tire up so that I can lube the chain.
I went to a resale shop and bought a crutch for $1.97. Came home and used an angle grinder to remove the expanding center stem. This makes a fine jack in my driveway, using the kickstand as the second pivot point.
I'll add some other parts to make it more stable when off road, but this is cheap and effective and totally in the spirit of the KLR. No need to buy a $175 centerstand!
Took a number of photo's of smoke trails and combined them into various pictures. Everyone will probably see something different in them.
CO (Chaffee County)
near Winfield Historic Site (Collegiate West 02) to meadow at Texas Creek Road (Collegiate West 02)
CW02 is the best segment (so far)! It rained most of the night but once again stopped by morning. I saw some leaks in my tent, so I had set-up my poncho as a fly. It worked ... I was glad I had it. I was packed up and hiking (with wet tent and poncho) by about 0700. It was 50f with mostly clear skies.
Shortly thereafter I encountered a Colorado Trail thru-hiker by the trail name of Right Here who had camped nearby. He was drying his gear and drinking some coffee. He offered me some, so of course, I stopped for a few. You can't beat a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, especially alongside a trail with spectacular views and warm sunshine. Lake Ann Pass was still about 6 miles away, so after finishing the coffee I hiked on.
The next portion of trail was spectacular. Open meadows with plenty of mountainous views. A conical mountain dominated the landscape which I believe to be Granite Mountain. I could tell the general direction the trail was heading but couldn't tell which side the pass would be on. It was an enjoyable hike.
Bell Trail is very popular with hikers and anglers who come to enjoy the solitude and other rewards offered by a clear cool stream flowing through a scenic desert canyon. Wet Beaver Canyon is one of four major canyons that cut Coconino National Forest's red rock rim country.
Most of the canyon falls within the Wet Beaver Wilderness. Wilderness areas are rare, wild places set aside by U.S. Congress where the land is allowed to retain its natural state, serving as a natural haven for humans to escape civilization. To help minimize human impacts in Wilderness areas, motorized and mechanized equipment are strictly prohibited by law, including bicycles, strollers, carts, remote control aircraft, and drones.
For the most part, the trail follows a route along a bench well above the streambed. A number of side trails, lead down to the waterside and indicate the location of good swimming holes or popular fishing spots. As the trail wanders deeper into the canyon, it leaves the canyon bottom to wind high along an escarpment of red sandstone and offer scenic views of the riparian area, the canyon and the surrounding mountains and valleys, before dropping back down to the stream at Bell Crossing.
Most people who come to this trail hike only the first 3.3 miles to Bell Crossing, taking advantage any one of several access paths that branch off the main trail and lead down to the stream. After crossing the Wet Beaver Creek, the Bell Trail climbs the canyon's south wall to a high, grassy plateau where it winds through pinyon juniper stands and open grasslands offering views that stretch all the way to the Sedona Red Rocks Country and the San Francisco Peaks. Eleven miles from the trailhead at Beaver Creek, Bell Trail ends at Forest Road 214.
Like many of our fragile riparian areas along creeks and rivers, the area is day-use only. Camping and campfires are prohibited along much of Wet Beaver Creek to help minimize damage to the soil and vegetation, reduce disturbances to wildlife, and prevent pollution of the clean, clear water of the creek. Wet Beaver Creek flows into the Verde River, a critical water source for many cities and communities in Arizona.
This trip was in early spring when the trees were just beginning to leaf out and snowmelt from a heavy winter was clouding the creek. Photo taken March 2017 by Deborah Lee Soltesz. Source: U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest. Visit Bell Trail No. 13 and Coconino National Forest for more information.
Google Maps bike directions recommends this mud path to get me from the Dumbarton Bridge to Union City. Taking this mud road adds 2 miles over bike laned roads and bike routes through Newark, CA.
Inner Basin Trail in the San Francisco Peaks at the start of fall color season, 2017. In the Inner Basin, the interior valley of the San Francisco Peaks, hikers are treated to a view of all the highest peaks of the San Francisco Peaks.
Photo taken September 20, 2017 by Deborah Lee Soltesz. Credit U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest.
My first actual car shoot... kind of. Unplanned and shot for less than 20 minutes. I used existing/available light because I don't own any lighting/flash units. And the bus just happened to pass by.
The cross country ski trail travels through tall trees covered in snow. Do you see the skier in the distance?
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This moderate trail climbs 163 ft. in 0.5 miles to the edge of Zion Canyon. From the end of the trail you stand 1,000 ft. above the canyon floor and find sweeping views of the Towers of the Virgin, the Streaked Wall, and the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway switchbacks down below. The Canyon Overlook Trailhead is located on the east side of the park, just past the Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel. NPS Photo
The Parc National La Visite was set up as a national park in 1983 and contains one of the few (protected) forests of pines. The park, southeast of Port-au-Prince and close to the border with the Dominican Republic, provides beautiful views of the Massif de la Selle range. The trail between Furcy and Seguin is very steep and, given the altitude, provides a good workout. Only some 22 km from the capital, the park is one of the few ecotourism sites mentioned in the guidebooks, but I met not a single traveller during my ascent or in my explorations of the area. It was only as I hiked back down that I met another solitary foreign hiker. A highlight of the hike is that the trail is used by locals bringing food to market, predominantly women, or offering jolting, careening motorbike taxis, predominantly young men. I was greeted warmly and with some amusement (it was clearly illogical of me to walk when there were motorbikes on offer and when I was sweating enough for ten).
The trail is hard and uneven, unforgiving on footwear: and this led me to this project...
Virginia Creeper Trial between White Top Mountain and Damascus, VA.
I took a few too many photos to "light up" the bike trail with my new GPS tracker.
One evening before dinner at the Mogotlho Lodge in Botswana I set my camera up on the deck for a long star trail exposure. Since the deck faces almost due south I thought it might make a nice shot. I used my portable flashlight to paint the tree for the first twenty seconds or so in the distance and then sat down for a wonderful dinner. Behind the camera was a fire pit which is providing the reddish orange illumination you see in the foreground.
Unfortunately my battery died during the exposure so the trails are not as long as I intended and the camera was not able to do it's automatic noise reduction, nonetheless I believe it was a worthwhile exercise.
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