Cruisin - photos at 70mph
And you've stopped too long already.
You just have to take the shot at 70 mph.
The roads are straight and fade into the distant horizon with traffic nowhere to be seen - ahead or behind. The scenery is surreal.
Cruise control and knees anchoring the wheel,
these photos were taking on the 11 hour trip to my dad's home in Las Vegas. On the move attempts trying to capture the amazing majesty of these surreal landscapes.
(If the image does not include the highway, it was taken from the driver's seat looking out the left window.) Clean windows very important. 1/4000 sec recommended.
Cruisin - Nevada State Highway 95
Nevada State Highway 95 north to Las Vegas. This two lane highway offers hundreds of miles of desolately beautiful desert landscapes.
Road to Mountain Mists - Markleeville, CA
California State Highway 89 outside Markleeville and headed into the Carson Iceberg Wilderness.
Rays of Light Over Aoelain Butte
With Mono Lake just behind us, a storm clears over Aoelain Butte.
Desert Sand Endless Sky - near Tonopah, NV
Landscape Folder - Highway 6, Nevada-California Border on way to Mono Lake- Nevada Desert Basin on lonely highway 6 leading to Mono Lake. Once a 500 feet deep lake, the broad, seemingly infinite desert basin, stretch hundreds of miles north, south and east of this point..
From Landscapes
Highway 120, Nevada
Landscape Foler - Heading west on a remote section of Nevada's US Highway 120 toward Mono Lake. The famed Tioga Pass at Yosemite Valley lies on the other side of those majestic mountains.
Following the Mist
California State Highway 95 guides you into the beginning of the Sierra Mountains just outside Markleeville.
Infinite Horizons
Nevada State Highway 95 offers hundreds of miles of breathtaking horizons and roads that seem to stretch all the way to infinity. If you look closely you will see the 'traffic' ahead.
Black Lake at 75 MPH
Driving north on Highway 120, Black Lake to the right and a storm straight ahead. I took this photo in the car driving at 75 mph - a necessity when covering 780 miles in 10 hours. The long straight road with miles of uninterrupted vistas is one of many on this 'lonely road' journey.
Bones of Mine
Layers of Ancient Sea beds frame the last remains of old mining building whose dusty dirt road beckon us toward it abandoned mineral mines just out of sight.
Clouds on Ancient Sea Beds
Highway 95, north of Las Vegas, offers fascinating geological stories as you drive its long straight road through apparent desert whose surrounding hilltops reveal the striated layers of ancient sea beds. This photo too was taken at 75 mph.
Traffic Jam on 120
Driving north on CA state highway 120, traffic gets heavy as visible in the lone car in sight. This is a crowded highway in this part of the journey. Mammoth Peak, Mt. Gibbs and Mt. Dana dominate our desert drive.
Mammoth PeakMt. GibbsMt. Danahighway 120ron hornelonely highway
Fog and Stone - near Markleeville, CA
On highway 89 outside of Markleeville, the morning mists give life to the stone cliffs that surround the local highway.
Cruise Control
Nevada State Highway 95 north to Las Vegas is a straight-as-an-arrow two lane road that runs for hundreds of miles through endless series of majestic desert vistas.