Mini Challenge #118 – One More For the Road

KevXman

Well, hello everyone. I didn't expect to be back in this position so soon. Hopefully I can live up to the honor again. After thinking about it today I decided on One More For The Road as a theme. What I'm looking for are images where a roadway (paved or dirt) is integral to the composition. Take away the roadway and the photo no longer has the same impact.

This Mini will run until 7:00 pm (East Coast USA) Sunday April 10, 2011.

Here are a few examples of what I'm looking for.







But, the most important part as usual is just to have fun with it everyone. So give me One More For The Road, or two, or three.

— Kevin

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rteest42

Badlands....
Here's my entry! Taken at Badlands National Park in Aug 2010

Froch

Very Nice Kevin! I like it. I have one that fits and two which are a bit of a stretch, but I'll include them for now.....

This ones a stretch as it's a rail'road'...
1. Tehachapi


Another stretch, but without the road there would be no sign......(he said, grasping for the straws....... ) )
2. ZZyzyx


3. Valley of Fire

davev

1)



2)

billseye

Kevin... Kudos on your win last round. Good call on the theme for #118 - should be some fun stuff!

1. Daley Ranch, Escondido, CA


2. Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas, NV


3. Near Ocotillo, CA

silversx80

1. NC Snow



2. ROY-G-BIV



3. The Market

CookieS

heres one.

sapphire73

My husband wanted a picture of this sign as he was navigating the twisting road down Mount Evans in Colorado. Taken from a moving car but tells the story.

1. On a Treacherous Mountain Road (Mt. Evans, Colorado)


2. Intersecting (in Vancouver, BC)


3. Can We Get There from Here? (Denali)

SimpsonBrothers

1. Open Country



2. Sunrise Commute



3. Own the Road

lizzard_nyc

Wonderful entries already!
Simpson brothers---Sunrise commute is just "wow".

1. "Hard Road"



2.High Road or Low Road



3. "The Road Home"

SimpsonBrothers

lizzard_nyc wrote: »

Wonderful entries already!
Simpson brothers---Sunrise commute is just "wow".

Funny, I was just about to say the same thing about Hard Road.

CHANDLERJA

Birdy

Hello! I'm new here and completely awed by the photographs already posted, but thought I'd throw my hat in the ring anyway. This is a photo of our vehicle's tracks on 90 mile beach in New Zealand, which is sometimes used as an alternative route for highway 1. I think the railroad photos are less of a stretch, but I guess it really depends on the definition of "road". Taken with a Canon Powershot G9. Criticism would be most welcome!

bf2015

Fairytale Rush Hour

piolet_rampe

The main highway between Thailand and Cambodia

ghinson

1. Roll Your Own Part One


2. Roll Your Own Part Two


3. Roll Your Own Part Three

Yaflyyadie

Zion National Park.
Nikon Coolpix 4300
Auto exposure, tweaked to make it look better (I think).!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yaflyyadie

Same as above, just playing with B/W.
Same picture, just experimenting (Exploring) with B/W, also cropped the speed sign, it looked intrusive to me. (Was I wrong ?).......... I GOT MY DOUBTS NOW.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS. I forgot all about the sign shadow.

feelin' ruby

Drive by shoots

DsrtVW

Sutter County CA

Long Exposure


The ET Highway Nevada

zoomn

Great stuff here!!!

1. Williamsburg, VA



2. Country Road

MarkR

Keep on truckin'!


Five O'Clock Rush


Banzai!

jpope42

What I great challenge. Roads are one of my favorite subjects, so here goes:

"Foot Traffic" a road in Hong Kong


"30 mph" Central Florida. This was my first shot with a Holga. Some have said it should have been my last shot!


"I Don't Need to Fight" Central Texas - There's a complicated explanation to for the title, so never mind.


Comment/ critiques are welcomed.

lizzard_nyc

"I Don't Need to Fight" Central Texas - There's a complicated explanation to for the title, so never mind.

Comment/ critiques are welcomed.

lol! well now I have to know about the title.

Your holga shot is a hoot. Those little beasts are not easy to master.

jpope42

Wellll, the short answer is it's from The Who song Baba O'Reilly (most people call it teenage wasteland). I grew up near where this was taken an we had a propensity to start fights on this road (a Texas '60's teenage boy thing I guess) and it gets uglier AND stupider from there, so....

I LOVE my Holga, when the pictures come out they're like little surprises, kinda like opening birthday presents. It's too bad they're so damn trendy!

kdotaylor

#1
Silver White Winter


#2
Road to Oamaru


#3

sweetharmony

I want to play too! This is my first mini and it sure is a treat seeing so many great images.......
1.

2.

konomaniac

Another great topic - here are my entries

1) Late Night Snow


2) One for the (rail)road??



3) There's a road here somewhere

jbrown4849

asphalt and gravel
Jumping into a min-challenge with such amazing photos makes me a little more than nervous to post but here I go with a few of my "one more for the road" shots.

1. Waiting to cross the border


2. Eastern Montana



#3 Eastern Montana Backroad

sdways01

Here are my entries.

Fall dirt road




Forrested road




Snow fog

JustRambling

Ok, I'm a MAJOR newbie both to this forum as well as to photography, sometimes I think I get some pretty good shots. I recently got a Canon SX30 IS and want to learn so much more. I thought challenges would give me something to "shoot" for (pun intended ). I believe most of these pictures were taken with my older camera though, which is a Canon A710 IS. The last two were taken with the new camera. Sorry for the size, I was trying to figure out how to drag the corners to make them smaller, but it didn't seem to want to work.


This is a walking path/bike trail on the Airline series in Moosup, CT

This is another path on the Airline series, in Putnam, CT

Another local state park, called Cat Hollow in Dayville, CT

I know it was supposed to be paved or dirt, but...since we had a record amount of snow here in CT this year, I thought a snow path might be appropriate too. Thanks for looking.