I want one!

[moribundman]

She appeared to be in pristine shape -- and so did the car.

 

[obbop]

Wild guess.....

Coast Range, easter San Francisco Bay area.

Hmmmmmm.... north of Orinda?

 

[moribundman]

The Benz is going west on (George) Lucas Valley Road in Marin. I'm heading for 101, which is about 4 miles east.

 

[Jonny Z]

Are those Bosch MicroEdge Excels on your windhshield?

 

[obbop]

Quote:

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Are those Bosch MicroEdge Excels on your windhshield?

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Yep..... I'm on BITOG!!!!

No doubt about it!!!

 

[moribundman]

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Are those Bosch MicroEdge Excels on your windshield?

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They are Valeo wiper blades.

 

[huffmuds9320]

Were you driving while you took the picture? Its kind of hard to hold the camera while you drive. Even when I'm the passenger, its hard to avoid the winshield wipers in the picture.

Nice day outside really brings out the beauty of the car.

 

[moribundman]

In the above case, I was in the passenger seat, with the car going maybe 50.

Usually I just hold the camera up with my hand without using the finder and wing it. Sometimes I have the camera mounted with a clamp on the passenger seat headrest rail and release the camera remotely. I also let my passengers use my camera.

I always include the wipers, the hood, part of a window frame or door, or shadow of the car, when shooting from the inside of a car, because it gives a sense of location.

For nine years I've been using this 35 mm Rico GR1, usually set to aperture priority, for almost all my "road pictures" that were shot from my car. It's got an excellent, fast 28 mm wide angle lens and full exposure control.

 

[rshaw125]

How about telling us the location of the other pics?? Very nice.

 

[moribundman]

Thanks. From top to bottom:

- coming out of a storm near Arches National Park, Utah
- driving into a strom near Arches National Park, Utah
- Autobahn A3, southern Bavaria, Germany
- country road in Bavarian Forest
- curious cow in Monument Valley, Utah
- camera in my hand

 

[windnsea00]

So do you live between US and Germany?

 

[moribundman]

I live in the US but do travel outside.

 

[Drew99GT]

I like that first storm picture. Nice mamatus there (bubbly clouds on the backside of the updraft in a strong thunderstorm). Strong instability in the atmosphere.

 

[moribundman]

The first two pics are from the same day. The second picture from the top was taken right before we drove into the storm. Ten minutes later day turned into night and an incredible downpour started. Wind speeds exceeded probably 80 mph (Imagine "horizontal" rain). At times the road was so flooded we couldn't see where the road was. The second picture was shot right after we came out of the storm.

 

[Drew99GT]

Dumb question but were you driving east to west? The first pic looks like a gust front/shelf cloud on the leading edge (east side) of the storm. I'm one of those wackaloons that goes storm chasin so I like thunderstorm structure!

 

[moribundman]

It's not a dumb question at all. I wish I'd remember on which highway we were driving. I know for sure it had lots of bends and turns. Here is another picture, which was taken to the right at a right angle to the road a minute or two after the truck passed us. It was early evening. If I were to know the exact time when I took the picture, it was late afternoon or early evening, the position of the rainbow, which is always diametric to the sun, would tell us which way the road is going. Alas, the old memory is hazy.

 

[Drew99GT]

If it was early evening, the sun is setting, then I'd say you were going westerly. I LOVE thunderstorms!!! Unless they are directly over my house dropping softball sized hail. Cool pics

I should bust out some of my storm chasing photography and post some pics. No good tornadoes as of yet but plenty of sweet storm structure and copious amounts of large hail. My little Corolla can handle up to 1.5 inch hail without hardly a dent!

 

[moribundman]

I'd love to see some storm pictures.