2018 was a great year. I got to travel across the country and around the world. Here’s my best shots smooshed together into one day.
Thank you to everyone who watched my videos this year. This will be the last video for 2018. I’m off to Tokyo and India. Be on the look out for more videos in the new year.
Dennis
Route 66
This stretch of Route 66 in California is flat and fast. The newly paved and painted road not only makes for nice photos, its makes for a flying sensation as you speed across the desert.
A pass on the Oatman Highway
Oatman Highway is rocky and rough. The curves are fun to drive, with just a touch of fear from the sheer cliffs. Off to the side are these rocky outcrops.
Curvy fun
This is a short but extremely fun portion of Route 66. I love the combination of the road going downhill, curving, then disappearing around the bend.
Rocky Distance
This is my favorite photo from the entire trip. The road provides an interesting foreground. The rocky outcrop in the middle leads to the mountain range and the clouds in the background.
- Dennis
This was an interesting last day of the trip. I had a stand off with a donkey, played in the desert, got to drive my favorite road of the entire trip and ultimately make it all the way to the Pacific Ocean after sitting through a lot of frustrating traffic.
- Dennis
This was a fun day in Arizona. All of the photos below were taken on the same incredible day.
Panorama of The Painted Desert
The Painted Desert
The Painted Desert
The Painted Desert is vast, so colorful and so outer worldly, I almost didn't know how to capture it. I felt the panorama did a good job of capturing how vast it is. The next two photos do a great job of showing the colors and varied the landscape is.
Petrified Forrest National Park
A little down the road from the Painted Desert is a Martian landscape. Rock formations, dry cracked clay surface and shrubs seem to go on forever.
Arizona range
This range ran along side Route 66 for miles. I loved how the setting sun light up the range and the clouds as they ran by.
Standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
I'm not a huge Eagles fan, but it was very cool to stand on a corner in Winslow, Arizona and see all of the tributes to the song by The Eagles.
Today was full of incredible landscapes that I had never seen before. Petrified Forrest National Park was like driving onto Mars. Every turn revealed colors, rock formations, vistas and just plain awe inspiring beauty that is a world unto itself.
- Dennis
The most impressive aspect of the west for me, and this part of Arizona specifically, is the vastness of the landscape. You can see forever, which allows for incredible views of clouds and rain storms as they pass over.
It's incredible to me how you can see the rain falling from the clouds and hitting the ground.
- Dennis
A New Mexico road bending and winding up a hill.
Once again, the hills got me. I loved how the road disappears around the bend to the left and then reappears on the other side of the frame to disappear once again up a hill and around another bend.
And again, it was astounding how long I could stand in the road without having to worry about a car. I'll never get used to that.
- Dennis
If I could have one day over on the trip it would be this one. Not that I didn't enjoy it, but I definitely would have spent the afternoon and night in Santa Fe. Grabbing lunch outside and driving through Santa Fe was really cool, but I would have loved to explore the city some more.
Beyond Santa Fe, seeing the Breaking Bad house was really cool. I wish I didn't chicken out and just grab this photo but the owners sitting in the front yard really threw me off.
- Dennis
I made both of these photographs on desolate stretches of Route 66.
Dirt road with cattle guard in New Mexico
I was on this dirt road section of Route 66 for 18 miles. I loved how the long stretch turns right up the hill goes off into the unknown.
I also find cattle guards incredibly intriguing. I can't believe they work.
Road side sunflower
I made this photograph on a stretch of Route 66 where the vegetation on the side of the road had started to creep into the road itself. This section had a number of strong groups of sunflowers. I liked how this bunch stood out against the mountains in the background.
- Dennis
This was a full day on Route 66. I got visit The Big Texan, Cadillac Ranch, drive a dirt road, play with and almost crash my drone, drive into New Mexico and end the day with an awesome sunset time lapse.
- Dennis