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A landscape photographer's tour

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

Three years ago, Keith took his then fairly new Canon 1Ds on a driving tour round the Rockies in the USA. This photo-diary covers a driving trip up the coast from San Francisco in April/May 2007.

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Now I'm back I'll have a check through the pages and include links to any pictures I put in the Gallery, along with 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.

There are other photo travel diaries covering trips to:
Washington and Oregon in September/October 2007 and Colorado in April/May 2006

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Just a few images from my flight back - it was cloudy over much of the US, but I got a few pics (all looking in a southerly direction)

These are taken with the little S500 I was given by Sony.

I recognised several of the places from the air :-)

First up, the Sierra Nevada (California) with Mono Lake to the left (Yosemite is in the mountains to the east of it)

yosemite - mono lake

Now for a bit of Colorado that I have not been able to find exactly, but I believe it is to the northwest of Steamboat Springs

Steamboat

Having accurately placed the following two pictures and having the times they were taken would allow me to work out the speed of the aircraft and then plot back a few minutes to the location of the picture above (maybe some other time ;-)

I took this picture to do just that since the lake was easy to find (MacFarlane resvr.) as being to the south of Walden, Colorado.

walden

Now the Colorado picture that was easiest to locate

loveland

This is right at the edge of the Rockies and the lake (center, far left) is Loveland

  • Note for anyone curious... ;-)
    The camera times for each of the 3 pictures were:
    19:14:36
    19:17:52
    19:24:07
  • If I recall correctly, we were at 37,000 feet

Lastly a picture showing why I've never yet visited any of Colorado to the east of the Rockies ;-)

east colorado

Well that's it until I decide it's time for another trip :-)

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