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One of the things Liz and I were really looking forward to doing during our vacation in Arizona was driving on the highways. We had a rented Ford Escape which was really comfortable and we wanted to experience those endless roads that we'd seen in the movies.
Well Arizona didn't disappoint! Here's one such evocative highway photo, showing the iconic 'vanishing point' view. The only difficulty in taking these pictures was avoiding the traffic, with Liz shouting warnings while I was crouched in the middle of the road with a wide angled lens, oblivious to everything except the composition in the viewfinder. Don't try this on the M6 by the way!
There are some truly beautiful roads to be travelled in Arizona, and this view was taken on the I40 as it passes straight as an arrow through the desert between Flagstaff and Winslow, on the way to the Painted Desert and Petrified forest. What a place!
Filename - road desert 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/60sec @ f8, ISO100
Location - Arizona, USA
This image - 800x640px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - ND grad filter used to balance exposure.
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