A landscape photographer's tour

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.

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)

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

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.

Now the Colorado picture that was easiest to locate

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 ;-)

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

Thanks to all the people who have written in and said they enjoyed the 'blog'.