Video photo sequence from trip

Finally back home

No pictures. The last 6 and a half hours of driving were incredibly boring. I will have a recap of the whole trip like total miles, etc soon.

Here is today's trek:


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Still going home

My GPS pronounces Missouri as "misery".  "Take Left on to Misery 15".

Here is a church and an abandoned shack..

I bought a replacement cable but Google maps splits yesterday and today's trek into two pages...  Sorry for the four pages:


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Tired

I'm at "Lake of the Ozarks" which is in Missouri. I lost the cable to my GPS so I can't upload my map. I have about 13 hours left of driving to make it back home. I'm hoping to do 6+ hours a day.

Iowa and Missouri just didn't appeal to me. I think I'm just too fatigued to stop and take pictures. Here is a touristy type gas station -- sorta cute I suppose.

Wednesday Quest for Color

No pictures today. I did pass some pretty scenes but thought it would be better later on. But, the color faded and I ended up empty handed (empty camera?).

Going towards home following the Mississippi for a while to see what its like.


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Monday Road Trip

Chris and I took a road trip... made a big loop. Not much color.  We did find a few pretty trees...

Mainly we checked out the Mississippi River.  Lots of really dramatic views and scenes but was kinda a bummer in the mostly brown foliage we found.

Found a nice sunset at Big Falls close to their house:

Our trek for the day:


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Sunday going home

I drove back to Chris and Mike's in Eau Claire. Stopped only once for this farm house. The colors are fading fast. I start going back south probably Wednesday.

My trips log:


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Starting back home

My best waterfall picture so far... Note the blue sky and the detail in the shadows.

My second lighthouse today.  It was less than impressive so I waited for a splash and a sea gull to be in the frame to give the picture some interest.  Not sure if it works.

Remember "Alice's Restaurant" ?  "Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography."  Likewise, I took this guy 26 times (a roll and a half of film).  Note how the tower is leaning back.  Thats because the camera is pointed slightly up.  That can be fixed in photoshop but with the 6x8, the camera tilts and shifts so camera is kept level and the tilt of the tower should not be in the 6x8 cameras shots.  We'll see if that is really true.

Just a really picture perfect home I had to take a picture of.

And my trek for the day:


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Two strikes

The past two days I've tried to get to Au Sable Point Lighthouse. The road is close from both directions. So, this entry is for the past two days and what I happen to get along the way. The first, of course, is a waterfall. This is Munising Falls.

After some persuasion, I went on the Picture Rocks cruise.  The first stop was the Grand Island East Channel Lighthouse.  It had nice trees around it.  It is no longer in use but still looks cute:

The Picture Rocks are unusual.  I don't know really what to do with them except to make modern art from them:

A pleasant picture of Munising WI on the way back from the cruise.

On the second day, one intermediate point was the Grand Marais Harbor Range Light...

The first day's trek:


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The second day's trek:


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Laughing Whitefish Falls

Got up at 6 am and went to Laughing Whitefish Falls. Hard trek down 153 steps and back up. Plus, the light / scene was extremely contrasty. They told me it would be hard. Here is a shot... might not be my best but none of them are very good.

On the way back, I thought this was kinda cute:

And then I went to Autran Falls.  This shot is a composite of three shots at different exposures to try and contain the contrast.  Woulda, coulda, shoulda done that at the first place... Oh well.

And my daily trek:


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Opps... woke up too late

Well, I drove to "Miner Falls" which is close by, got out, put on my camera backpack which is fairly heavy, hiked 1.2 miles, and got there too late. I had time to take one quick digital picture but the sun was peaking over the ridge I was facing... Oh well. Here is the quick pic:

On the way back, I stopped and took some pictures of the country side and town. These are not touched up much in photoshop. The colors really are that dramatic:

And, of course, the day's trek:


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Wagner Falls

I plan to go back to these falls. It is deep in the woods with no light. The obvious shot is this one:

But I don't like the top half.  So, I turned the camera and took this shoot.  I think it has a lot more promise.

And, for fun, a nice sunset:

For the curious, here is my trek for the day.


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Sunday in Munising

Woke to 33 degrees but clear skys.  Fog lifting up off the lake:

Plotted some falls to see and noticed I had past Scott Falls when I drove in yesterday.  It was close by so I found it.

Then just tooled around and found a pretty road...

And, finally a map of today's adventures:


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Camping at Kitchi Gami

I troddled over to Munising MI today into fairly cold, windy, and sometimes wet weather.  It is raining outside my tent right now.  I broke out the Antarctic jackets when I was pitching the tent.  Go ahead and call me a wimp but at least I'm here doing this... Where are you?

The GPS, on its own, decided to take me to Bond Falls.  There are more evergreen trees here and it seems drier.  Still some neat pictures:

Here is a picture of the weather at the lake towards sunset.  Pretty neat clouds.

Here is the path for the day:


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Moving on... Saturday Oct 2nd

I plan on moving on from my cousin's cabin to Munising, MI.  This is up on the coast of Lake Superior.

Here are a few pictures.  One would be good to use as wallpaper.  The others I took on the 1st.  The last is a picture of "The Wooden Tent" as my cousin and her husband call it.

Another day, Another Prop -- Sep. 29th

My cousin suggested using the canoe for a prop.  This is my third attempt.

Relaxing -- Tuesday morning Sep. 28th

One of the "props" that I use is two chairs looking out over a scene.  This was suggested to me by a friend several years ago.  This image is actually a composite of three images taken at different exposure to capture the wide range.  Anyhow... enjoy:

Trip to "The Porkies"

Before the trip, the water was perfectly calm at the cabin:

My version of the classic picture from the area:

4" of rain the days before produced massive rapids along with fool hardy boys going down them in a kayak.

The trek we took is shown on this map:

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Sun, then cloud cover, then sun... but some great pictures.

First, we have a pretty good sunrise but then it clouded over.  This is from my cousin's peer looking across the lake they are on.

We took a road trip.  Came across many beautiful places.  This is just inside of Wisconsin.

At the same stop, a simple still life:

My cousin's cable (with the big noise of my truck poking in the bottom left.  This is after the sun came back out.

I'm just super happy with these.

Moving further north

I've had some requests for pictures with me.  Here is a picture at my cousin's place.  Notice there is not much color in the trees in the background.

While going north to my other cousin's place, I came across this.  These pictures are "geotagged" and I want to have links to google maps but I haven't learned how to do that yet.  So, for know, just think of northern Wisconsin and you'll be pretty close to where this was taken.

I got to Peg and Steve's cabin and Peg took me to some water falls close by.  In roughly 150 miles further north, notice how much more color there is.  It is not quite peak yet so I think I got here right on time.

Blah Morning Sep. 21st, 2010

Woke to rain.  I'm still in Eau Claire, WI with my cousin.  I'll take this opportunity to tell ya about all the gunk I packed.  Two camera systems, camping gear, clothes, bath stuff, and other small items.  I have boring pictures of my truck packed to the gills which I'll share some other blah morning.

Rain followed me...

At my cousin's in Eau Claire, WI.  Woke to rain.  Found a nice water fall but not a very interesting shot.

Rest stop close to La Crosse, WI

Finally a tiny bit of color...