Tag: roadtrip

Landscape by Patrick JenningsOct 11, 20228:36 pm

Shadow Selfie

I have to admit there are an overabundance of road pics in my catalogue, photographs in which various streets, highways, byways and gravel tracks from my travels serve as the primary subject of a landscape. Mind you, I’m not apologizing for that. We photograph and write about what we know and love, and I love few things more than being behind the wheel of a car (or pedaling a bicycle) through unknown country. Over 40+ years of driving and cycling I’ve amassed several hundreds of thousands of miles wheeling on just about every road surface imaginable.

Safe to say, I know roads.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 10, 20227:36 pm

Smooth Gravel, Sparse Country, High Rock Road, Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, Nevada, United States of America

Smooth ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #331

Smooth gravel
Through sparse country
Makes me happy

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 28, 202210:02 pm

A Journey of a Thousand Miles, State Highway 50, Loneliest Road in America, Salt Wells, Nevada, USA

Centre Line II

A journey of a thousand miles
Begins with a centre line

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 16, 20228:45 am

Centre Line

Sometimes
Even in the darkest times
All I need
To keep me grounded
Is a centre line
Through open country

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 13, 202210:37 pm

Angry Sky

Angry sky
Above vacant land
Allows a torrent
That never satisfies
For the land
Is always thirsty

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 26, 202211:59 pm

Sunrise Over Valley of the Gods, From Moki Dugway, Cedar Mesa, Utah, United States of America

Sunrise Sojourn

I wake
Into darkness
Scramble out of the tent
Enough time to boil water

Coffee
Cereal
Almond milk

The breakfast of
Car camping
Photographers

Pre-dawn
On the horizon
Time to go

Camera bag
Tripod
Fresh brew in the travel mug

On the way
Not far from the campground
Dawn demands a stop
Unexpected glory
In a few hurried frames

Then to the switchbacks
Moki Dugway
Rising twelve hundred feet
Straight up Cedar Mesa

From the top
With the wide zoom
And the fisheye
Then, this one here
On the middle zoom
Expected glory

Deep sigh of success
And anticipation
For the work which takes
A latent image of RAW bits
To the finished photograph
Here

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 4, 20227:00 am

Great Basin National Park, U.S. Route 93, Great Basin Highway, Nevada, United States of America

Daylight’s Final Sigh

The road takes me
Toward the golden light
Day fading into
Indigo night

The long desert drive
Doesn’t end
‘Til well after dark

So I stop before the dusk
Share with the Earth

Daylight’s final sigh

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 22, 20227:00 am

Fabled Streets, California & Powell, San Francisco, California, United States of America

The Streets of San Francisco

Fabled Streets
Of San Francisco
Car chases
And cable cars

In nineteen hundred and ninety six
I take my 5th wheel down Powell
Forty-five feet of feelin’ cooler than
McQueen, Cage and Connery

Past the bottom
The truck’s brakes fail
So I drive the city streets
Using the trailer’s brakes

Impressing a parallel trucker
“You’re one of us,” he tells me
Eat your hearts out
Movie stars

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 9, 20228:51 am

Glimmering Blacktop, U.S. HWY 50, Lincoln Highway, The Loneliest Road in America, Eureka, Nevada, United States of America

The Invitation

Blacktop glimmering
Invitation to explore
Hostile enchantress

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 3, 20226:52 pm

Moonrise Over Susanville

Subtle light
Illuminates the night
A heavy sigh
As the day draws nigh