A landscape photographer's tour
London to Seattle

Keith's travels in the Pacific Northwest - September-October 2007

Flying out to Seattle at the start of a driving tour of the Pacific Northwest.

Although the 'real' pictures start in following day's pages, I was struck by the quality of the photos I was able to get from the plane window as we flew over Greenland and parts of the US.

The weather isn't at its best this time of the year, but I do enjoy driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, and particularly the Oregon 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... :-)

This photo-diary covers some of my travel photography from 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 are also articles on trips to Colorado in spring 2006 and fall 2008

It's a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip along 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.

	Daily pages 27th September: UK to Seattle 28th September: Into Oregon 29th September: Cannon Beach 30th September: Further South 1st October: Three Capes 2nd October: To Florence 3rd October: quiet day... 4th October: South to Bandon 5th October: On the beach 6th October: Bandon to Bend 7th October: Bend to Seattle 8th October: Around Seattle 9th October: Around Seattle
What's the Washington weather like? What's the Oregon weather like?	National Weather Service radar (Pacific Northwest) What are the roads like? (WA)

Ok, just travelling today...

Flying out to Seattle via Chicago, so the first leg of the trip went over the tip of Greenland

However, before even getting on the the plane I discovered new parts of the Heathrow departure lounge

Here's Karen (who I'm travelling with this time) checking out the duty free...

Anyway, having stocked up with Malt Whisky for the trip, off we went...

What you can see of Greenland, looks pretty mountainous.

This from 40,000 feet

While there was plenty of room on the flight to Chicago, the one to Seattle was pretty packed

However, it was clear most of the way across the States, and we managed to get photos of one of my favourite mountain ranges (from 38,000 feet).

The mountains to the right of Jackson lake are the Tetons.

Why one of my favourite mountain chains? From the ground they look like this

I was going to use a less cloudy example, but since I've only got the pictures on my laptop, this will have to do ;-)

Here's a slightly better view, giving a feel for the topography of the area

Finally there's this view of the 'back' of the Tetons for my friend Vicky, who's only seen them from the front (the side with the pointy bits)

So on to Seattle, crossing numerous hilly bits, and these two river valleys, that could be straight out of a geomorphology textbook.

Near to Seattle, there's this rather excellent volcano.

Mt. Rainier at ~14,000 feet is impressive. Note the other volcanoes in the distance (Mt. St Helens to the right)

A quick flight over Seattle

And a look down towards Tacoma, with that huge volcano in the background (it will make a big mess of this area when it goes off)

That's it for today, since it's been a long one

Just to finish off, here's the car parked outside the motel...

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