Random Photos from Road Trips

[DonnaR57]

These photos are stunning! This thread deserves to be 30 pages long with those to illustrate it!


Donna

[Mark Sedenquist]

Here is another one from the UP of Michigan.

Point Iroquis Light Station captured in July, 2015

[Mark Sedenquist]

This is the famous Pinky


Located on the banks of the upper Mississippi River,
Marquette, Iowa -- July 2015. More about the history of this statue here.

[Rick Quinn]

South of Farmington, New Mexico, not far from NM State Highway 371, there is a BLM protected area known as the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, or, by it's popular name, the Bisti Badlands. If you take the time to drive there, and perhaps take a little hike, you will see amazing things:



Laid out before you is a broad wash running through an area that was once the bed of an ancient sea. Primordial geological dramas took place here, creating an otherworldly landscape just out of sight over the horizon. The ancient waters receded, leaving a swampy river delta that was later choked off by thick layers of volcanic ash. A desert arose, and over millions of years, immense shifting dunes compacted into a thick mantle of sandstone. Tectonic plates shifted, and the entire Colorado Plateau was forced upward, a micromillimeter at a time, bending and fracturing the multicolored layers of rock. Over millions of years, wind and water sculpted some of the world’s most extravagant rock formations: hoodoos, arches, balanced rocks, and boulders shaped like everything from birds to beehives, including giant mushrooms, a barking seal,



and the head of a wolf, tilted skyward, howling at the moon.

Scenic Side Trip #17: Gallup to Grants: a scenic alternative to Interstate 40

Rick


Read more about Rick's book here and see a map for all of the routes he wrote about.

[AZBuck]

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Fall has finally come to my little corner of the desert here in Tucson.



AZBuck

[Mark Sedenquist]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

Lovely photo!

Mark

[Rick Quinn]

I learned most of what I know about the basics of photography while shooting black and white film, mostly because the film itself, the paper used to make prints, as well as the processing chemicals required for developing, all of that stuff cost a fraction of what I would have spent shooting color. Today, of course, 99% of the pictures taken are digital, so there's no film, paper, or chemicals involved, and if you want black and white, all you have to do is run your picture through a filter, and you've got it. Personally, I still like black and white photos. In some situations, taking away the color actually adds to the visual impact of an image, so every now and again, I have a little fun with that sort of thing.

These were taken at the San Xavier del Bac Mission, just outside AZBuck's home town of Tucson, and they nicely illustrate my point:





Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Rick

[AZBuck]

San Xavier del Bac is also known as The White Dove of the Desert, so b/w photography is appropriate.

AZBuck

[Mark Sedenquist]

Back to color photos... I could make some of mine into black and white, but...


Slab City, May 2019

An ongoing art project/lifestyle near the Salton Sea in California.


Just one of many such installations/art galleries in the "town" area.

[Mark Sedenquist]

Speaking of art. I don't know if this is still here. This was captured in July 2019 at the Gardens on the ground of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health - Las Vegas research center in Las Vegas.



This is located near the performing arts center -- The Smith Center.