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I'm a New Hampshire-based travel photographer with a love of creative landscape, street, abstract, and nature photography. Whether you are here to follow my travel photoblog, read my stories from around the world, or just to browse through my extensive photo gallery of New England and world photography, I hope you enjoy your visit! Continue reading...-
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A collection of some of the most beautiful "Sunrises" professional photographs & prints I've taken over the years. Please note there may be multiple pages of photographs so keep scrolling or look for the "Older Posts" button!
Day VIII: Grand Teton Nat’l Park
Driving through Wyoming was utterly beautiful. My only requests for my next visit would be to consider the idea of actually using radio to broadcast music, adding cell phone reception at least sporadically, or even to just consider having one restaurant opened past sundown.
Storm Passing Through Wyoming
I made it into the hotel at about 10:30 pm local time and quickly gained an understanding for the reason this particular place was marked down 35%. I’ll start by admitting that it was an improvement over my living situation in Utah, where I slept clothed–not only for fear of the cleanliness of the dingy room–but also to keep all the flies from landing on any exposed skin. It also appeared that previous tenants had used the hotel carpeting to relieve themselves, and judging by the appearance of the bathroom itself, I find it hard to blame them.
While the place in Wyoming didn’t have the bug problem, it also didn’t have a working heater/AC unit, phone, tv, bedroom lighting, hot water, or the internet connection they promised me. The complex was clearly seasonal, and was just opening up for the winter tourists they’d host for skiing. Judging by the smell of the room, this place hadn’t been touched in six-months.
I got up for sunrise yet again, and was surprised to find that half the town apparently lines-up outside a local breakfast joint everyday, trying to be the first to get a seat when they open at 6am. I guess I’d need to live in a small, remote town to understand.
Compared to where I was yesterday, the difference between the daily high temperatures was 50-degrees. I was set-up for about 45-minutes to get this shot, both waiting for the fog to clear and for the lighting to become just right. It was well-worth the wait.
Lessons Learned: When visiting Wyoming, rent an American-made truck. It wasn’t until about thirty-minutes after crossing the border that I finally spotted another foreign-made vehicle. It took even longer to find one that was a sedan.
The tallest peak reaches to over 13,000 feet
Photo Style: Landscape
Similar Photo Galleries: Grand Tetons-WY, Mountains, Storms, Sunrises, Wyoming
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Day 251. Travel Day
Apparently I don’t travel as well as I used to. My day started with nearly missing my flight because, despite being early to my gate, I became entranced with all the different food options lining the terminal, and like a child separated from a nirvana of candy by just a thin piece of glass, I found my face pressed up to the window of each, drooling with anticipation over all the possibilities. It wasn’t until I heard the words, “last call to Dulles. We are closing the doors momentarily,” that I snapped out of it.
Matters only got more complicated when I arrived in Dulles and found my cell phone decided that a life of servitude to me was a life it no longer wanted to be a part of. Given the dependency on my phone for maps, sights, hotels, food, gas, and all else, a dead phone wasn’t exactly the best way to start the trip.
I boarded the next plane with a liter of water. I still have absolutely no idea how I managed to do this, but the first thing I did when I got to my seat was somehow hit the cap in such a way that it became entirely unscrewed and that whole liter of water went everywhere, completely drenching me in the process. I was in shock. The previously nice couple that I was sitting next to was in shock (they would have nothing to do with me the rest of the flight). Everyone else was just staring. It was very hard not to laugh.
Lessons Learned:
After traveling for 18-straight hours–sick and with little food all day–mountain biking 9-miles up an 8,000 foot mountain without being acclimated, on a bike where only a third of the gears worked (and barely worked at that), and with brakes that were stuck partially engaged the entire way was probably pretty stupid.
It was pretty awesome too.
Jet Engine
Nubble Lighthouse at Sunrise; York, Maine
Gondola and telephone wires extending over the water to The Nubble Lighthouse in Maine
A beautiful clear-sky sunrise behind the Nubble Lighthouse in York, Maine.
Photo Style: Architecture
Similar Photo Galleries: Buildings, HDR, Lighthouses, Maine, Nubble Point Lighthouse, Sunrises, York-ME
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