Mini Challenge #125 "Road" Trip

PedalGirlPedalGirl Registered Users Posts: 794 Major grins
edited August 12, 2011 in The Dgrin Challenges
Half the fun of going places is getting there! This challenge will celebrate the Road Trip... key word being "Road". Post your best Road Trip pics making sure that your photo incorporates the road in some way.

Challenge will run from July 28th to 9:00pm PST August 11th
Post your favorites up to 3 shots.

Rules for Challenge are here
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=168929

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures... taken from the actual road through my windshield!!

~ Lisa

On the road again
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I want to go to Harmony!!!
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  • JAGJAG Super Moderators Posts: 9,088 moderator
    edited July 29, 2011
    1 Heading to Soldotna in the Fall.
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    2 Seward Hwy...
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    3The Road to Denali...
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  • FrochFroch Registered Users Posts: 571 Major grins
    edited July 29, 2011
    1. Over the River Thames
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    2. Zzyzk
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    3. Tehachapi
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  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited July 29, 2011
    Great idea for a theme but I'm not sure if this counts?

    1. Acadia
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    2. Acadia #2
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    3. Acadia #3
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  • CHANDLERJACHANDLERJA Registered Users Posts: 400 Major grins
    edited July 29, 2011
    Laid Back!
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    East Bound and Down!
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    Working
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  • CambysesCambyses Registered Users Posts: 141 Major grins
    edited July 30, 2011
    #125 - Road Trip
    1. Haleakala
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    2. Sequoia
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    3. Will Rogers
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  • ghinsonghinson Registered Users Posts: 933 Major grins
    edited July 30, 2011
    1. "Inner Trail"
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    2. "Road to Altar Rock"
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    3. "Bridgette at Millie's Bridge"
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  • MemolMemol Registered Users Posts: 115 Major grins
    edited July 30, 2011
    1. Mono Lake to Mammoth
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    2. Back from Waimea Canyon
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    3. A Road in Kauai
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  • gecko0gecko0 Registered Users Posts: 383 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2011
    1. Roadtrip 101

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    2. Vineyard Travels

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    Canon 7D and some stuff that sticks on the end of it.
  • MichaelLockhartMichaelLockhart Registered Users Posts: 23 Big grins
    edited August 1, 2011
    A Bridge In Yellowstone
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    A Road Through Yellowstone
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    A Road Through The Palouse
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  • TammiGTammiG Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited August 1, 2011
    Big Sky!
  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2011
    The Road from the Mountains to the Beach
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    Rutted Road
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    For Tourists
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2011
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  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2011
    ghinson wrote: »
    1. "Inner Trail"
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    Greg, this is incredible. Any chance you'd share your workflow on this one?
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  • ghinsonghinson Registered Users Posts: 933 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2011
    dlscott56 wrote: »
    Greg, this is incredible. Any chance you'd share your workflow on this one?

    Thanks Dave.

    This is shot at 14mm focal length. And it is a 5-shot Photomatix HDR composition. Without looking, its a pretty small aperture, maybe f16-18. Somewhere in there.
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  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2011
    ghinson wrote: »
    Thanks Dave.

    This is shot at 14mm focal length. And it is a 5-shot Photomatix HDR composition. Without looking, its a pretty small aperture, maybe f16-18. Somewhere in there.

    Ok, thanks. I think you're pretty good at using Photomatix ! I've just started working with it and am going to work on my HDR skills. Hope I can put some together soon. Also hope you won't mind if I ask some questions over the next couple of weeks? I'm hoping to get some good material to work with over my vacation to Yosemite and San Francisco.

    Thanks again for the info.
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  • ghinsonghinson Registered Users Posts: 933 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2011
    dlscott56 wrote: »
    Ok, thanks. I think you're pretty good at using Photomatix ! I've just started working with it and am going to work on my HDR skills. Hope I can put some together soon. Also hope you won't mind if I ask some questions over the next couple of weeks? I'm hoping to get some good material to work with over my vacation to Yosemite and San Francisco.

    Thanks again for the info.

    Absolutely. Take your tripod. Set up the camera to auto bracket 3-5-7 shots. Shoot in RAW. That way, as you get better in Photomatix, you can always go back to your originals and rework them!

    Very jealous of your upcoming trip!
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  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2011
    #! - White Silence
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    #2 - Old Farm Lane
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2011
    Off the interstate:

    Sam

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  • red_zonered_zone Registered Users Posts: 533 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2011
    somehow I have a much less picturesque view of the road / road trips.

    History:
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    The Real View:
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    Grit:
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    and not for consideration for the contest, but this is what pops to mind when I think of trips:
    All Packed:
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  • jheftijhefti Registered Users Posts: 734 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2011
    Road in Nebraska
    A farm road in rural Nebraska, July 2011
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2011
    follow the leader
    Jeff W

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  • AnjimoAnjimo Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited August 4, 2011
    Road to heaven
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  • gdwoodsgdwoods Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
    edited August 4, 2011
    Carrer Ample
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    Maggie's Diner
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    Spanish Girl
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  • billseyebillseye Registered Users Posts: 847 Major grins
    edited August 4, 2011
    1. Anza Borrego
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    2. Daley Ranch
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    3. Copenhagen, 1981
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  • FrochFroch Registered Users Posts: 571 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    jwear wrote: »
    follow the leader

    Is that the Road Kings?
  • keithlmkeithlm Registered Users Posts: 13 Big grins
    edited August 5, 2011
    Does a Jeep Trail count as a "road"? Yes the trail does go all the way up.

    BONUS points if you spot all the people in the shot.

    SIDE NOTE: I am now officially in love with Lightroom. This was one of the "reject" photos because the exposure was way off. (The cloud caused problems and I wasn't in manual mode.) The jpg from the camera is awful and can't be edited to be acceptable. This raw file... well take a look yourself: (Darn... now I have to re-edit all the things I uploaded to Smugmug... only use RAW converted to JPG by Lightroom during the publish.)

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  • sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,970 moderator
    edited August 5, 2011
    Here are a few from our travels:

    1. Denali National Park (shortly after the ash clouds spewed by Mount Redoubt) - 2009
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    2. On the Way to Milford Sound in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park - 2011
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    3. Stuck in the Mud (in Kenya on a back road to visit the Masaii) - 2009
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    This last photo was snapped with a P & S camera when we were all asked to get out and walk while they tried to extricate the van. Wish I had some Masai youth in the background with their livestock but we passed them earlier and later on the road. Really.

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  • jheftijhefti Registered Users Posts: 734 Major grins
    edited August 6, 2011
    Sapphire, I love that last shot! You sure do get around in your travels! Beautiful!
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  • psychosaywhatpsychosaywhat Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
    edited August 6, 2011
    #1

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    #2
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    #3
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  • sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,970 moderator
    edited August 6, 2011
    jhefti wrote: »
    Sapphire, I love that last shot! You sure do get around in your travels! Beautiful!

    Yeah, I wished I had taken some shots with the 7D but at least I have something to convey this "road less traveled".... :)

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