Expedition Photographer Challenge: Adventure

[Scott Brady]

We will make sure the images have a real sense of adventure. Check out the next one for February - Solitude.

A problem we have had in a couple photo club events, are photo entries that were outstanding images, and were selected as contenders, but they did not fit the "theme". Someone had to step in and remove them from the list of contenders.

Not just pretty photos, right? "Adventure" is the theme.

 

[xjblue]

 

[ttora4runner]

Ouray, Colorado - Blac Bear Pass 2008

 

[Scott Brady]

this challenge is officially closed

 

[fj40fax]

How long will the voting go?

 

[Scott Brady]

I am setting up the voting poll right now. The voting period will end this Friday.

 

[fj40fax]

I'm glad I don't have to choose the finalists in this one, there are some great images here!

 

[fj40fax]

Oh, and the winner does not have to have their winning picture on the backlitbox. They may have any image they want on it.

 

[bcrez]

Where can we find the voting poll? or is it private?

I am setting up the voting poll right now. The voting period will end this Friday.

 

[fj40fax]

Here you go...

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55931

Where can we find the voting poll? or is it private?

 

[Ozjourney]

Bridge to Adventure

G'day all,

Here is my entry, taken in Mongolia, on our expedition "Melbourne to Moscow"

Steve

 

[Scott Brady]

Great photo Steve, but just past the deadline - sorry. We will have another theme that will be great for.

 

[Christian P.]

this picture is so awesome is so many ways.

 

[Scott Brady]

The challenge is over. Well done Jake!

Now tell us the story

Where were you?
What happened?
What camera did you use?

 

[Vermejo]

The challenge is over. Well done Jake!

Now tell us the story

Where were you?
What happened?
What camera did you use?

Thanks Scott & to all those that voted!


Location: Poison Spider Mesa, Moab, Utah

Camera/Lens: Nikon D60/18-55mm

In the spring of 2009, during a group run of Poison Spider Mesa, I discovered a broken rear link on the 4Runner forcing me to turn back. My plan was to go back solo into Moab, fix the truck, pack camp, and set off for Colorado by that evening. I was growing frustrated by my clunking truck and the prospective work ahead. The trail was eerily vacant for a Saturday, as if everyone had been forewarned of something wicked coming. The scent of rain and cooling air seemed to invigorate my spirits, so I pulled out my camera and made a few photo stops before making the final plunge. I was standing outside the truck, photographing the Colorado River below, when I noticed the landscape quickly darken and the first drops of rain hit. Within minutes a black shroud moved overhead. I made the decision to press forward not wanting to get stranded on the mesa. As soon as I started the truck, the downpour began.

Waterfalls seemed to erupt from the hillside, blasting the earth beneath them and melting the trail under me. All the best lines were at the cliff’s edge as rocks and mud flowed onto the trail. As I descended the off camber ledges, Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved?” played between the pounding rain and shaking winds. This is when I raised my camera and captured my moment of adventure. Though it seemed like an eternity, the worst of storm only lasted 15 minutes. This shot is special to me because it takes me back every time I see it. With a better or worse stroke of luck, it wouldn’t have played out this way.

Hours later, the truck was fixed and I was happily cruising through Southwest Colorado. Ironically, the same storm would go on to dump snow on the San Juan Mountains & Million Dollar Highway for the next day’s adventure…but that’s another story.