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A landscape photographer's tour
Keith's travels in the Pacific Northwest - September-October 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 starting at Seattle, Washington in September/October 2007. There are also photo-journals on this site covering an earlier trip to some of the area, but starting at San Francisco. There is also an article on a trip to Colorado
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The weather isn't at its best, but I do enjoy driving along the Pacific coast. These pages will have a few of my pictures along the way. I'm not on my own this time so I'll probably not be keeping quite the detailed notes I usually do... :-)
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.
A drive down the coast to Florence today. The weather is pretty poor, but at least it's not as wet as in Seattle, where a friend tells me it's been raining for days...
It was raining the other day I visited Lincoln City, so I didn't notice the Bear Emporium
And since you can't see the footprints in the shot above...
Further down the road is the 'D' river aka "the world's shortest river"
If you travel much in America, you'll realise just how much of the world's biggest/tallest/shortest/smallest can be found there.
Cape Foulweather was named by Captain Cook and today lived up to its name, although the rain eased off a bit after a visit to the gift shop...
Along the coast they are big on Myrtlewood - you see shops and factories everywhere where they make things out of the wood...
And near the Devil's Punchbowl
The black and white image below has had some pretty vigourous curves applies to bring out detail from the mist and rain.
Here's another of Karen's bridge pics for her sister...
That's at Newport, where there are a lot of noisy sea lions in the harbour.
I was just taking the picture below, when Karen noticed that there were loads of them sleeping under the jetty we were on...
Trying to win the cutest sleeping sea lion award...
As I pointed out the other day, there's no shortage of people travelling round in truck like vehicles
This supreme example of tackiness is a Winnebago towing a Dodge pickup (Dodge only seem to employ people bereft of any semblance of taste or decency in this part of their design department)
Is that a bike I see in the back?
Yup, just when you thought the yuk factor couldn't get any worse...
One more shot of the coast, taken between rain showers...
Of course, coming into Florence, there is a huge bead shop...
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