A Digital Photographers Paradise, The Great Southwest..More HDR Images To Come.

We hear the weather is hot in the Southwestern United States and we are on our way. Wyoming is BIG, beautiful and a great place to ride but, for the first time in many years we’ve had some pretty bad weather. We haven’t had many good phototography oportunities so we are headed for the Southwest and some sunshine.

Heading south from Riverton Wyoming to Colorado is a fantastic ride. For almost the entire ride you are traveling on a high plateau which is 6,500 to 8,000 feet in elevation. The air is crisp and clean and the roads are great. The traffic is very light and you can really cover some ground. We rode pretty steady but, before leaving Wyoming we stopped long enough to take a quick photograph of this beautiful landscape. This jpeg image is a shot looking back to the Northeast in the morning light. I took a single image and we were on the road again. The photo is of a large government managed, wildlife, and big game area. This is the home to a very large elk population.

The jpeg image was taken with my Canon EOS 5D. Shot with a 24mm lens at f/16 for a good depth of field, you can really get a feeling for how big and breath taking this beautiful country is.

 

From here we busted right through Colorado and made it to Cortez in Southwestern Colorado and spent the night. We didn’t stop for photographs because we were just happy to have some good riding weather. We made the most of the warm weather and really covered some ground. Tomorrow we will ride into Northern Arizona. It should be a busy day and provide some great opportunities to capture some High Dynamic Range Photographs. This country has a great landscape and the lighting should be great for shooting HDR. Trust me your eyes are in for a treat. See you in a few days,  Terry

PS: Roger just called and we are heading back on the road tomorrow to ride through Eastern Oregon and Hells Canyon on the Snake River. So I guess I’ll be off line for about 5 or 6 days.

Here is quick look at shot taken near Kayenta Arizona… Shot about one o’clock and it was already over 100 degrees.