PXLated, I feel your pain. I was shooting on Boulder Mountain in UT a couple years back and to get a better angle I climbed on the embankment that led up to to the roadside. What I didn't realize was that under the grass, was loose cinders, which gave way beneath me. I held my tripod with my 5d Mark II and 70-200mm above my head, with one arm as ended up in baseball slide down the embankment. The cinder removal took a long time and was no fun. A guy leading a nearby workshop said it was the best camera save he ever saw.
2021 T@b 320 Boondock "Mattie Ross" | 2021 T@b Nights: 239 | Total nights in a T@b 455 | 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Overland | T@b owner since 2014
PXLated - I live in Tucson and sympathize (we seem to have various kinds of cactus that even"jump" on you if you get close). Nasty to get out - great pic though!
Michele, Tucson, AZ. TV - '13 F150 & '16 T@Bitha special order.
You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!
Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm usually camped in unglorius places (farm yards, ghost towns, a firehouse parking lot, once a cemetery) shooting old stuff so I'm envious of the spots/pics you've all posted. If you saw the scene without the lighting it's pretty bland (2.25 miles up a dry canyon wash). It proves you should never trust a photograph :-)
So many great photos already, I don't think I took any that can compare, but here is my favorite from last year:
This was taken as we camped on a friends property in West Virginia last spring. It was a great, all be it short, weekend filled with campfires and good friends and napping by the river in front of their property. It truly is three acres of heaven out there.
States the T@Bpole has camped, so far Nathan & Becky... 2013 Ford F150 FX4 TAB HLR... 2012 LG T@B T@Bpole. Sterling, VA
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PXLated, I feel your pain. I was shooting on Boulder Mountain in UT a couple years back and to get a better angle I climbed on the embankment that led up to to the roadside. What I didn't realize was that under the grass, was loose cinders, which gave way beneath me. I held my tripod with my 5d Mark II and 70-200mm above my head, with one arm as ended up in baseball slide down the embankment. The cinder removal took a long time and was no fun. A guy leading a nearby workshop said it was the best camera save he ever saw.
2021 T@b 320 Boondock "Mattie Ross" | 2021 T@b Nights: 239 | Total nights in a T@b 455 | 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Overland | T@b owner since 2014
You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!
Love the pic with the moon PXLated!!
I'm usually camped in unglorius places (farm yards, ghost towns, a firehouse parking lot, once a cemetery) shooting old stuff so I'm envious of the spots/pics you've all posted.
If you saw the scene without the lighting it's pretty bland (2.25 miles up a dry canyon wash). It proves you should never trust a photograph :-)
This was taken as we camped on a friends property in West Virginia last spring. It was a great, all be it short, weekend filled with campfires and good friends and napping by the river in front of their property. It truly is three acres of heaven out there.
States the T@Bpole has camped, so far
Nathan & Becky... 2013 Ford F150 FX4 TAB HLR... 2012 LG T@B T@Bpole.
Sterling, VA