Photography at Interstate Speed: Glenwood Canyon, CO
Sep 14, 2016 09:18:16 #
Take a tour through Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, on I-70. While most of the Western Interstates have a 70 - 80 mph speed limit, most of the 15 miles through Glenwood Canyon is 50 mph, with some sections lower. IMO this 15 miles has to have had the highest $/mi. construction cost of any highway in the Nation. Enter the top end of the canyon just west of Dotsero, CO, and exit at Glenwood Springs, Co. I hope you enjoy the trip.
Edit: The photos are in no particular order, for which I apologize. Ever tried selecting 10 photos out of around 250 taken on two downhill and one uphill passes?
Edit: The photos are in no particular order, for which I apologize. Ever tried selecting 10 photos out of around 250 taken on two downhill and one uphill passes?
Sep 14, 2016 09:21:34 #
Sep 14, 2016 09:32:56 #
Glenwood is spectacular (particularly when boulders block the interstate.) Well done.
Sep 14, 2016 09:33:36 #
ebbote wrote:
What a drive Neil, very good series.
Thank you Ernest. It was quite a drive. I was driving the first time through, so all I could do was salivate. The next day the Missus consented to drive a round trip through, and then again leaving the day after.
Sep 14, 2016 09:36:58 #
Beautiful set Neil,
Geoff
Geoff
neilds37 wrote:
Take a tour through Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, on ... (show quote)
Sep 14, 2016 09:37:37 #
davefales wrote:
Glenwood is spectacular (particularly when boulders block the interstate.) Well done.
Thank you Dave. The day we were scheduled to leave the canyon was closed to all traffic while a helicopter conducted falling rock control (no idea how that was done).
Sep 14, 2016 09:39:25 #
Sep 14, 2016 09:42:56 #
Sometimes it pays to be the passenger. The only "complaint," are the pictures with the edge of the windshield in the shot. But really not a complaint.
Sep 14, 2016 09:43:59 #
Sep 14, 2016 09:51:58 #
NJFrank wrote:
Sometimes it pays to be the passenger. The only "complaint," are the pictures with the edge of the windshield in the shot. But really not a complaint.
I noticed the "frame" when I was going through them after the fact. At the time all I was doing was trying not to miss a shot in a 60 degree field of view at varying distances and elevations.
Sep 14, 2016 09:53:03 #
neilds37 wrote:
I noticed the "frame" when I was going through them after the fact. At the time all I was doing was trying not to miss a shot in a 60 degree field of view at varying distances and elevations.
Fully understandable.
Sep 14, 2016 09:55:36 #
Galahad wrote:
Thanks for the drive. I provides an incentive to go there.
Glad you enjoyed it Galahad.
Sep 14, 2016 10:03:28 #
Nice shots - much better than I remember taking years ago in Kings Canyon with not such good equipment. But I think I learned a couple things in taking those shots - maybe twenty years ago - and thought I might pass what I learned after the fact.
First of all (unlike today) my car had a sun roof (and perhaps my next one might as well). That allows you to support your camera with a monopod and not be forced to shoot through a window. Worried about the dirt that might be streaming by? The shots I took shooting backward, away from incoming wind, seemed to turn out best anyway.
Probably the warning is unnecessary, but don't try to take pictures like this while actually driving. Leave the driving to someone else while you operate the camera.
First of all (unlike today) my car had a sun roof (and perhaps my next one might as well). That allows you to support your camera with a monopod and not be forced to shoot through a window. Worried about the dirt that might be streaming by? The shots I took shooting backward, away from incoming wind, seemed to turn out best anyway.
Probably the warning is unnecessary, but don't try to take pictures like this while actually driving. Leave the driving to someone else while you operate the camera.
Sep 15, 2016 05:38:48 #
Sep 15, 2016 06:12:41 #
J-SPEIGHT wrote:
Nice set Neil
Thank you Jack. I appreciate the comment.
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