A landscape photographer's tour
UK to San Francisco

Keith's travels in California and the Pacific Northwest - April-May 2007

This photo-diary covers a driving trip up the coast from San Francisco in April/May 2007 along the Pacific highway. Now I've returned, I've included some of my travel photography from this trip in the main Gallery, and updated any info that may be of help to people who come across these pages as part of their planning for driving tours of the California and Oregon coasts, looking for places to stay or sites to visit. It's a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip up the Pacific coast to photograph some of the scenery. If you've any questions about the hotels/inns/motels where I stayed, then please do feel free to drop me a line.

Ok, just travelling today, but I thought I'd take a few shots from the plane, since after getting the 7:55am flight from London to Chicago, I discovered that it's often quite empty and had a row of seats to myself.

Anyway, no trip starts without a (slightly weak) cup of tea. Todays pics are taken with the free Sony S500 I recently got with a data projector, so are from jpeg files and through a plane window - not the best of quality ;-)

Much better is the Pizza you get before arriving at Chicago (flying AA)

This is looking over the gulf of St Lawrence

well around here according to the plane's navigation system

And looking north into Quebec

Sim city? nope, Chicago

And more new housing near Chicago

Lots to do in the mid-west

Rock formations

More rocks

Here's some snowy mountains in Wyoming I believe

The edge of the great Salt lake, Utah

More of the Utah salt flats

And arriving at San Francisco

Meanwhile, watching QVC selling cookies, I check the lenses I've brought along on the trip

15mm, 16-35mm, 24mm Tilt/Shift, 24-70mm, 70-200mm

I'm in Millbrae, not far from SF airport, and tomorrow I'm heading north.

The weather forecast is not too good for the next few days, but who knows... :-)

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