Thursday’s Task

Ken Rennie

Ken Rennie

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I usually avoid having roads in my images apart from the last shot. This road is now known as the North Coast 500 (NC500) a road which follows the highly indented North Coast of Scotland for 500 miles from Inverness back to Inverness. A few years ago I was going to cycle it with my brother in law but he hurt his knees and now my knees will not let me cycle this far. Much of the road is single track with passing places making speedy progress impossible.
You can see a tiny part of the road on the right and good eyesight may allow you to spot it running along the loch side.
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Slightly further along showing how empty the countryside is. Population density is less than Montana but greater than Alaska. This part is close to a population centre and houses are visible.
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Lastly a wider part of the road where 2 cars can pass with care, this is the main road so all traffic uses it from cars to large trucks. This small campervan illustrates one of the main problems driving here. People hire them who are not used to driving slightly larger vehicles and take them onto narrow roads which climb through mountain passes with narrow twisting hairpin bends that they crawl up leaving a queue of frustrated drivers behind them. Locals who drive slower vehicles know that they need to stop every few miles and let people pass. I was going to hire a camper van and drive this road but my wife vetoed the idea. Ken
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John Holbrook

John Holbrook

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Ken Rennie said:
I usually avoid having roads in my images apart from the last shot. This road is now known as the North Coast 500 (NC500) a road which follows the highly indented North Coast of Scotland for 500 miles from Inverness back to Inverness. A few years ago I was going to cycle it with my brother in law but he hurt his knees and now my knees will not let me cycle this far. Much of the road is single track with passing places making speedy progress impossible.
You can see a tiny part of the road on the right and good eyesight may allow you to spot it running along the loch side.
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Slightly further along showing how empty the countryside is. Population density is less than Montana but greater than Alaska. This part is close to a population centre and houses are visible.
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Lastly a wider part of the road where 2 cars can pass with care, this is the main road so all traffic uses it from cars to large trucks. This small campervan illustrates one of the main problems driving here. People hire them who are not used to driving slightly larger vehicles and take them onto narrow roads which climb through mountain passes with narrow twisting hairpin bends that they crawl up leaving a queue of frustrated drivers behind them. Locals who drive slower vehicles know that they need to stop every few miles and let people pass. I was going to hire a camper van and drive this road but my wife vetoed the idea. Ken
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Ken, this week’s focus was not on the roads of the scenic routes but the scenic route landscapes seen via that road (note my examples, no roads). I guess my Thursday’s Task illustration (first image) was not helpful and probably confusing. The image was to indicate the landscape shown was on Scenic Route Byway 128, UT. I apologize for this week’s task not being sufficiently clear to you and perhaps other members. Nonetheless you have provided us with particularly special images—especially the first one—a very beautiful capture.

And by the way, I seldom include roads when capturing landscapes either.
 
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Ken Rennie

Ken Rennie

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John Holbrook said:
Ken, this week’s focus was not on the roads of the scenic routes but the scenic route landscapes seen via that road (note my examples, no roads). I guess my Thursday’s Task illustration (first image) was not helpful and probably confusing. The image was to indicate the landscape shown was on Scenic Route Byway 128, UT. I apologize for this week’s task not being sufficiently clear to you and perhaps other members. Nonetheless you have provided us with particularly special images—especially the first one—a very beautiful capture.

And by the way, I seldom include roads when capturing landscapes either.
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No problem John.
 
John Holbrook

John Holbrook

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ckcarr said:
Some roads or accessible pull offs?

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Craig, beautiful images I especially favor the last two—nice compositions! I especially love the third image. Concerning your comment about the roads, I copied my answer to Ken from above:

This week’s focus was not on the roads of the scenic routes but the scenic route landscapes seen via that road (note my examples, no roads). I guess my Thursday’s Task illustration (first image) was not helpful and probably confusing. The image was to indicate the landscape shown was on Scenic Route Byway 128, UT. I apologize for this week’s task not being sufficiently clear to you and perhaps other members.
 
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