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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.
From Bandon on the coast to Bend, via Crater lake
Crossing the coastal range, here's another nice bridge
A river in the Cascades
and a roadside view of another river - the colours are quite pronounced, although the damp overcast weather doesn't do much for them
A bit of sun works a treat though
Near the shot above there was this -wooden- pipe for transporting water to a hydroelectric scheme
Note the leak - I used it to clean the car (well, at least one side of it)
The pipe is made from redwood planking, with a lot of steel banding added.
On the way to Crater lake there were the first signs of some snow at altitude
The pummice desert lost some of its interest, when covered with snow
All kinds of people were out for the day.
The dog has its own (heated) bag on the back of the bike to travel in
Here's Karen ( right) taking a picture of a snowman
The cloud cleared for a short while, giving this view of the lake and Wizard Island
Note the rainbow (it's for real!)
Meanwhile a lot of visitors congregated at Rim Village...
Afterward we made for Bend - no more pics since it had been a long drive...
We also decided not to wait up and visit the grill and sports pub next to our motel in Bend.
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