Cycle #3 is about to become a reality. In process of getting plane tickets and planning my itinerary. Looks like I'll hit Albuquerque on March 13th and return home to Crimea on May 30. That's 2 1/2 months. Plan is to hit my old standby, Grand Canyon, followed by Joshua Tree NP near LA and then head north to the Pacific Coast Highway and Julia Pfeiffer Burns SP. I'll work north along the California coast with a several day stop in San Francisco. I want to shoot the Golden Gate at low tide at both sunset and sunrise which means I have to be there on March 29th. I want to get out on the tidal flats near the south pier, ocean side and see what kind of images I can get. It's a bit risky as the place I want to go is under water except at low tide but I am devising a plan so I won't be in trouble. I plan to get shots of the gate from as many angles as I can before heading further up the coast. The intention is to work the coast all the way to Seattle and then head east into the Rocky Mountains and both Glacier and Yellowstone. Not sure if the weather will cooperate but that's the plan. Getting good chains for the truck as a precaution and may also hit REI to buy a good pair of snowshoes just in case. It's going to be a very intense trip but I hope to get a ton of great images to work on when I get back in late May. We'll keep our fingers crossed all goes well and I return safely home. Wish me luck.
Kodachrome Basin State Park
This isn't the most popular place in Utah but it's certainly interesting. I had some time to spare and was in the area so I drove to this small park to spend a few hours. It"s not nearly as dramatic as Zion or Bryce or Arches but there's certainly some pleasant scenery to capture. This image is of a dead pinon (I think) and it was just so nice to look at. Because the air is so dry these trees last for a long time and they take on such a wonderful patina. The sky also cooperated. This is a 5 image sequence, run through Photomatix and then Lightroom to finish.
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| Kodachrome Basin - 24mm,f/11,HDR,ISO 100,license CC BY-NC 4.0 |
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