Heading back from New Mexico a month or so ago, I began to visually track the moon and see where I could maybe capture it as it was setting. Looking at the time, I figured I could get it around the Needles area of California/Arizona. I have shot the cool mountains by the Colorado river there before and was looking for something a bit different.
So taking the 2nd exit before entering California, with my GPS app running, I started driving some back roads heading toward the Needle rocks. Often they were not visible, and I couldn't tell by the topo map exactly which road would take me close to where I wanted to go, or if any actually would get me there. I just kept driving by the seat of my pants and heading in a SW direction as much as possible. The road turned into a real 4X4 road, and started getting pretty narrow, but my jeep still fit between the walls without getting too scratched up. Taking it to where it dead ended, ended up getting me close to where I wanted, though I was not able to get all the way to the Colorado River I still ended up with some nice compositions.
It was about 105 degrees at that point, so I made sure to take extra water with me, even though sunset at this point was only about 30 mins away and I didn't figure on getting too far from my jeep. Anyway, so I was able to get a few shots like this before the moon disappeared behind clouds and I switched to shooting wider and getting the sunset with the really twisted rock formations.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
So taking the 2nd exit before entering California, with my GPS app running, I started driving some back roads heading toward the Needle rocks. Often they were not visible, and I couldn't tell by the topo map exactly which road would take me close to where I wanted to go, or if any actually would get me there. I just kept driving by the seat of my pants and heading in a SW direction as much as possible. The road turned into a real 4X4 road, and started getting pretty narrow, but my jeep still fit between the walls without getting too scratched up. Taking it to where it dead ended, ended up getting me close to where I wanted, though I was not able to get all the way to the Colorado River I still ended up with some nice compositions.
It was about 105 degrees at that point, so I made sure to take extra water with me, even though sunset at this point was only about 30 mins away and I didn't figure on getting too far from my jeep. Anyway, so I was able to get a few shots like this before the moon disappeared behind clouds and I switched to shooting wider and getting the sunset with the really twisted rock formations.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
