Cross County Road Trip part 1

With the weather still deciding if it wants to be cold and snowy or rainy and miserable, I haven’t really gotten outside much to do any photography.  So my family and I were hanging around the house when Brooke decided to go through old photo albums.  She pulled out the book I made of the cross country road trip I took back in 2007 with a buddy.  We took two weeks off of work and packed ourselves along with all the essentials (photography gear, laptops, tent, etc… in that order) in a Hyundai Elantra and drove.

I haven’t looked at any of these pictures in a few years and realized that they were not in my main Lightroom catalog.  So I started the import of thousands of pictures and realized that back then, I had no idea what made a good picture.  The few I’m showing below are the ones that I got lucky with… if only I knew then what I know now.

On the first leg of our trip, we encountered a billboard talking about a 50 foot tall Jolly Green Giant.  That wasn’t getting passed up at 6 o’clock in the morning.  Later in the day we finally made it to our first stop, the Badlands National Park.  This was a spectacular park with beautiful, if a bit dry views.

Coming up (eventually) will be the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Yellowstown, Grand Tetons and lastly Rocky Mountain National Park.  I hope you enjoy.