The Road

[johnmsanderson]

I could not find a topic for such a subject, but it seems fitting to have one. I'll start it off with a photograph I made in 2017 in Albany County, Wyoming.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1582328776415-OHYA6HB9WGDVO6BLSDJX/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLvgIuazWRxDGeALQ0yXNL97gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0plef_PmwB6-3GP4qDbCUv-NJH_7PgqOJZyXVG2BzskSDTgNNv9DnYL8WSMeU4Ae7A/John_Sanderson_Albany_County_Road_2017.jpg?format=2500w

8x10 Arca Swiss F Line
Ektachrome E100G
Fujinon 600C

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Looking forward to seeing photographs of the road to feed my wanderlust.

[Reinhold Schable]

. . Roadside gas station ruins & Dry Lake, S. of Austin, Nevada.
https://live.staticflickr.com/4548/38606786762_03f648b3f2_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/21PxSEw). . Gas Station at Dry Lake (https://flic.kr/p/21PxSEw) by Reinhold S. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/154287991@N05/), on Flickr. . #BUAB 191. Camera: 4x5 Tachihara, lens: 135mm Nikkor, O2 filter, on 4x5 Kodak PXP. 1986.

More here... https://www.flickr.com/photos/154287991@N05/albums/72157711685441752

Reinhold

[Richard Wasserman]

Last month in Waukegan, Illinois


200943

[Tin Can]

All roads lead to Casinos

There and now way down here...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-moran-tollway-route-53-route-120-st-0222-20200221-zzmsagkvkfcmvjudzcl7q7xnzu-story.html

Very familiar with the decline of Waukegan, my favorite Steakhouse on the harbour closed years ago, a room with a view...


Last month in Waukegan, Illinois


200943

[Jim Galli]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/WorkGlovesS.jpg
the govm't

An old one and the first thing I thought of to fall under "the road"
These lay in the street in front of my driveway for at least 6 months exactly as you see them before it dawned on me to get a camera.:cool:

[Robert Oliver]

200949

Road to Borrego

This one was shot in 2011 in the Anza Borrego region. Chamonix 4x5 w/ 90mm Nikkor SW on Tmax 100 film.

[Rick A]

From my archives

https://live.staticflickr.com/5444/9132590085_2298e22d0e_c_d.jpg

[Graham Patterson]

Last month in Waukegan, Illinois


200943

Sort of symbolic, the older utility pole leaning, while the modern cell tower is ramrod straight.

[h2oman]

Great idea for a thread, excellent contributions, all!

[Ben Calwell]

200986
U.S. 60 in Kentucky (can't remember exactly where) ca. late 1980s. Tri-X, HC-110, 90mm lens.

[mathieu Bauwens]

Only but a small piece of the road just in front of my entry door ;

200995

Kodak 2D 8x10
Fuji 250
Bergger pancro 400/ HC 100b

[mathieu Bauwens]

201119
Road and bike path

201120

201121

Chamonix 045F1
Fomapan 200
Fuji 125 / 180mm

[Vaughn]

The road into Yosemite.

Through the Portal, Yosemite National Park, 2019
11x14 carbon print.

[Ulophot]

Very handsome, Robert.

[Vaughn]

Zion National Park
5x14 platinum print

[Jim Galli]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/TurnerReich/12TRs/PoleLineRd12TR3s.jpg
gabbs pole line road

An imperfect plate. I have some bad film. The dust isn't "dust" it's an emulsion problem.

The Gabbs pole line road is an improbable span of power line poles across a barren waste from nowhere to nowhere. It was necessary for the production of magnesium during the war effort of WWII. I often use this road on travel to Northern Nevada simply because it is empty. You have to endure 46 miles of dirt road to enjoy the solitude but it is the shortest route, and during crazy times, perhaps the best.

The lens is a Turner Reich 12" on full plate.

[Tin Can]

I took Jungo Rd from Winnemucca to Gerlach in 1999, at that time it was rough and sandy, 100 miles and never saw another vehicle until I approached a bicycle rider going to Trego Hot Springs (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Trego+Hot+Springs/@40.7701288,-119.1127396,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNZNdAaY93E_TTHa0BBj-H5YfQhAXqBL_qILG41!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNZNdAaY93E_TTHa0BBj-H5YfQhAXqBL_qILG41%3Dw114-h86-k-no!7i4032!8i3024!4m5!3m4!1s0x809fbc20f6534721:0x142dcad9844be167!8m2!3d40.7701288!4d-119.1127396). I gave him water and off he went east.

Saw Allied Nevada - Hycroft Mine (https://elkodaily.com/mining/hycroft-to-employ-under-expansion-plan/article_739deed4-471e-5a7d-9dab-aab68f333bed.html)

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8957018,-118.6175913,3a,75y,105.79h,88.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZ-9ntW5oYi9uYFKgiXRDDA!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

When I left I took the much longer main road back to Winnemucca and had a great steak at the best place in town, a Basque steakhouse, which I see has gone to crap.

[JeRuFo]

No grand vistas where I live, but plenty of intimate landscapes.



https://live.staticflickr.com/5801/22243531885_8cc95df9b0_o.jpg

[scheinfluger_77]

The nice thing about intimate landscapes in other parts of the world is... I get to see other parts of the world, places I probably will not visit in my lifetime. :cool:

[johnmsanderson]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/TurnerReich/12TRs/PoleLineRd12TR3s.jpg
gabbs pole line road

An imperfect plate. I have some bad film. The dust isn't "dust" it's an emulsion problem.

The Gabbs pole line road is an improbable span of power line poles across a barren waste from nowhere to nowhere. It was necessary for the production of magnesium during the war effort of WWII. I often use this road on travel to Northern Nevada simply because it is empty. You have to endure 46 miles of dirt road to enjoy the solitude but it is the shortest route, and during crazy times, perhaps the best.

The lens is a Turner Reich 12" on full plate.

I love this image. Wish I were traveling there right now.

[Jim Galli]

I love this image. Wish I were traveling there right now.

Thank you!

[Ben Calwell]

No grand vistas where I live, but plenty of intimate landscapes.



https://live.staticflickr.com/5801/22243531885_8cc95df9b0_o.jpg

That is a very nice photo. I like the way my eyes follow the road past the trees. Well done!

[gnuyork]

I could not find a topic for such a subject, but it seems fitting to have one. I'll start it off with a photograph I made in 2017 in Albany County, Wyoming.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1582328776415-OHYA6HB9WGDVO6BLSDJX/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLvgIuazWRxDGeALQ0yXNL97gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0plef_PmwB6-3GP4qDbCUv-NJH_7PgqOJZyXVG2BzskSDTgNNv9DnYL8WSMeU4Ae7A/John_Sanderson_Albany_County_Road_2017.jpg?format=2500w

8x10 Arca Swiss F Line
Ektachrome E100G
Fujinon 600C

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Looking forward to seeing photographs of the road to feed my wanderlust.

Fantastic!

[Randy]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ovz5iqezwanb15j/img418d.jpg?dl=1

Somewhere along Route 158 in North Carolina.
4X5 Speed Graphic

[archphotofisher]

here's my road image, 8x10 wista, 202214

[Ben Calwell]

here's my road image, 8x10 wista, 202214

Very nice!

[Alan Klein]

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/WorkGlovesS.jpg
the govm't

An old one and the first thing I thought of to fall under "the road"
These lay in the street in front of my driveway for at least 6 months exactly as you see them before it dawned on me to get a camera.:cool:

Interesting how one is pointing out where you should go. ;)

[Alan Klein]

200949

Road to Borrego

This one was shot in 2011 in the Anza Borrego region. Chamonix 4x5 w/ 90mm Nikkor SW on Tmax 100 film.
Robert, I just got a Chamonix (45H-1) and the Nikkor 90mm f4.5 with the Schneider CF IV. I'm also shooting Tmax 100. I'd be very proud if I could get a shot like that some time. Very nice.

[Jim Noel]

Love it Jim.

[JMO]

"End of the Road" at Simko Recycling Center in Superior, Wisconsin (Sept 2018). Linhof Master Technika 4x5; TMX in D:76 1:1 at N-1; 400mm Fujinon T at f32 for 1/8sec and no filter.

202274

[Richard Wasserman]

Somewhere in southern Wisconsin

[Vaughn]

I took Jungo Rd from Winnemucca to Gerlach in 1999, at that time it was rough and sandy, 100 miles and never saw another vehicle until I approached a bicycle rider going to Trego Hot Springs[/URL]....

I never knew the hot spring had a name. I drove that road (Gerlach to Winnemucca) in winter...spent the night at Trego Hot Springs...Dec. 7, 1990. It was starting to get dark and I could see a whiff of steam off down this side road. No one there...not very developed like it seems to be now. Mine trains zooming by regularily! Soaked a little in the morning to warm up and then hit the road. I hadn't thought of that in awhile -- did not realize Burning Man is right there.

[Eliverto]

30°41’42,47”S 50º28’52,90”W

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48708345691_c0a6da2a2d_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hdc1cD)2019-09-09-0001 (https://flic.kr/p/2hdc1cD) by Eliverto Scherer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/eliverto/), on Flickr

[Ari]

Somewhere in Hungary

https://live.staticflickr.com/5664/21189389905_d36bb3471e_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/yhraoH)

[Ari]

Road to Nowhere

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49743203497_78d0f16692_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2iMCVnB)

[Ben Calwell]

202292
Along U.S. 60 in West Virginia, late 1980s. 4x5 Tri-X, Nikkor 90mm f8 lens, HC110. V700 scan

[tonyowen]

202298 202299

Two images, the first 'Road outside my house' using Fompan100.
The second 'Road [and rail] bridge between Ynys Mon and Gwynedd' being a paper negative

regards
Tony

[tomhamp]

I could not find a topic for such a subject, but it seems fitting to have one. I'll start it off with a photograph I made in 2017 in Albany County, Wyoming.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1582328776415-OHYA6HB9WGDVO6BLSDJX/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLvgIuazWRxDGeALQ0yXNL97gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0plef_PmwB6-3GP4qDbCUv-NJH_7PgqOJZyXVG2BzskSDTgNNv9DnYL8WSMeU4Ae7A/John_Sanderson_Albany_County_Road_2017.jpg?format=2500w

8x10 Arca Swiss F Line
Ektachrome E100G
Fujinon 600C

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Looking forward to seeing photographs of the road to feed my wanderlust.

Beautiful...glad to find this forum...


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[johnmsanderson]

Grafton, West Virginia, May 2021

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1622156952722-0BBVOUNRTQAITLK5Z1S8/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kGXkBk_f50YnqIXQImQLy-t7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0hHMyhIh2kKzuOL3ydJCryAmnc9stwfjc30f7ZU6ysA5sPmWzQJxZNXYeB5YRqmEWg/John_Sanderson_Grafton_West_Virginia_Highway_Arbor.jpg?format=2500w

Arca Swiss F Line 8x10 / Fujinon 450C / Ektar 100

[archphotofisher]

216530 4x5 type 52 polaroid

[Leszek Vogt]

Grafton, West Virginia, May 2021

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1622156952722-0BBVOUNRTQAITLK5Z1S8/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kGXkBk_f50YnqIXQImQLy-t7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0hHMyhIh2kKzuOL3ydJCryAmnc9stwfjc30f7ZU6ysA5sPmWzQJxZNXYeB5YRqmEWg/John_Sanderson_Grafton_West_Virginia_Highway_Arbor.jpg?format=2500w

Arca Swiss F Line 8x10 / Fujinon 450C / Ektar 100

Wow, this has a Deliverance feel, John.

Les

[Heroique]

216554

Early evening, I've pitched my tent in the Olympic Mountains (Wash. state).

Down there is the FS road I ascended to get here. :D

I'm looking across Puget Sound to the Cascade Mountains, a very different mountain range. On the horizon is Mt. Baker. A volcano – sleeping for now – she's just up the road from Mt. Saint Helens & Mt. Rainier. Back in the 1970s, I remember she spit a little bit of steam, people got very nervous, then she settled down. She's been mostly quiet ever since. However, I'm sure she watched Mt. Saint Helens lose her temper (in 1980) with great approval. It's only a matter of time before she wakes up and gets just as angry.

Tachi 4x5
Fuji A 240mm/9 (w/ Lee 85b filter)
Fuji Tungsten-64
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

[FrancisR]

Grafton, West Virginia, May 2021

Arca Swiss F Line 8x10 / Fujinon 450C / Ektar 100

Your two images are absolutely fantastic (colours, composition...) !

[h2oman]

Grafton, West Virginia, May 2021

Arca Swiss F Line 8x10 / Fujinon 450C / Ektar 100

Ahhh, the ubiquitous vest!

[woshilluzhan]

Highway photography from China wista 45 dXlll

[Greg]

Colorado outside of Denver probably in the late 1980s. 4x5 Chrome.

[Richard Wasserman]

Interstate 94—Kennedy Expressway, Chicago, IL

[Tin Can]

Here I go again...

The best thing about that road is the train

As from my Chicago studio, I could walk 2 blocks, get on that train, get off inside ORD airport and be anywhere in the world quickly

Where I am now, I have to get in a car for 10 miles to do the same

:cool:

edit, actually I can walk 3 miles to my regional and do the same

I hate cars

:)


Interstate 94—Kennedy Expressway, Chicago, IL

[ImSoNegative]

Colorado outside of Denver probably in the late 1980s. 4x5 Chrome.Love this

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[Vaughn]

Certainly not the open road...Santiago, Chile

[Heroique]

217595

Just for fun, here’s a twist on the road theme – the abandoned road of a glacier.

When the glacier retreated the same way it came, it tossed some large rocks out the window, like beer cans on the highway. Check out that big one, middle right.

Thanks to climate change, I fear this road will be abandoned for quite some time. :(

Tachi 4x5
Fuji A 240mm/9
Velvia 50
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

[William Whitaker]

Great idea for a thread, excellent contributions, all!

+1!

[austin granger]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51691536606_6dcee10958_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2mKNCVL)Museum Road, Oregon (https://flic.kr/p/2mKNCVL) by Austin Granger (https://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/), on Flickr

[h2oman]

Sad, but funny too!

[cowanw]

I could not find a topic for such a subject, but it seems fitting to have one. I'll start it off with a photograph I made in 2017 in Albany County, Wyoming.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1582328776415-OHYA6HB9WGDVO6BLSDJX/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLvgIuazWRxDGeALQ0yXNL97gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0plef_PmwB6-3GP4qDbCUv-NJH_7PgqOJZyXVG2BzskSDTgNNv9DnYL8WSMeU4Ae7A/John_Sanderson_Albany_County_Road_2017.jpg?format=2500w

8x10 Arca Swiss F Line
Ektachrome E100G
Fujinon 600C

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Looking forward to seeing photographs of the road to feed my wanderlust.
I am not sure if I missed this originally but today it struck me as a marvel of composition. the top cut off by the clouds and the curve of the road leaving the picture frame only to come back in and leave again. All too likely I would have turned to the right and tried to include the complete road. But no you went for a composition that is fresh and dynamic and unique. Really well done!

[johnmsanderson]

thank you for the complement. That was my original idea, to have the road in the frame, but for some reason this composition was more interesting, if perhaps not as expected. I also like that the road's path is not known, it could be a continuation of the road or be a junction, leading to somewhere else. Man, the road really is an interesting thing isn't it? Wyoming is a stunning place.

[bobpin]

20141022 occupied Hong Kong

Ebony RSW45 camera
Steinheil Orthostigmat 150mm f12 lens
Kodak Portra 400 45

222322

[Tin Can]

Thank you


20141022 occupied Hong Kong

Ebony RSW45 camera
Steinheil Orthostigmat 150mm f12 lens
Kodak Portra 400 45

222322

[Jody_S]

20141022 occupied Hong Kong

Ebony RSW45 camera
Steinheil Orthostigmat 150mm f12 lens
Kodak Portra 400 45

222322

It was a wonderful surprise, this morning. To wake up to these images. Thank you.

[FishyFishArcade]

I can't remember if I've already posted this before in a different thread. Apologies if so.

Chamonix 045N-1
Fujinon NW 135mm f/5.6
Ilford HP5+
Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15 mins 45 secs@ 20°

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52949674582_6795249ee7_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2oEYVvQ)
Again (https://flic.kr/p/2oEYVvQ) by fishyfish_arcade (https://www.flickr.com/photos/fishyfish/), on Flickr

[johnmsanderson]

That is marvelous!

[Thad Gerheim]

217595

Just for fun, here’s a twist on the road theme – the abandoned road of a glacier.

When the glacier retreated the same way it came, it tossed some large rocks out the window, like beer cans on the highway. Check out that big one, middle right.

Thanks to climate change, I fear this road will be abandoned for quite some time. :(

Tachi 4x5
Fuji A 240mm/9
Velvia 50
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

I agree. These roads are being uncovered too fast.

[Thad Gerheim]

Capitol Reef UT
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53158837847_5f123d2814_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2oZsWt2)caproad copy (https://flic.kr/p/2oZsWt2) by Thad Gerheim (https://www.flickr.com/photos/164331465@N05/), on Flickr

[FishyFishArcade]

That is marvelous!

Thank you.

[djdister]

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbiAIARHR5fPz-OP67tLwde8eJnAfkVRivhG0ERT1-0H9Hh9pQKe2W1pzXpzpijmA38RWu5qGHidQRxsZqn_0yzIeJiJ1WyT9EIRp76jOlOW0y-Keco8GNGaQILkVnUvOn_snMJ9AvpJbAZvPa-B0whcIGE-taxexUXE9NNb73630RQhBAayorL2m8bBi3/s1067/JunctionCityKS-404a.jpg
Junction City, Kansas
Speed Graphic w/135mm Optar

[johnmsanderson]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1722971097055-L4KATDM5D5LB8H9SNDF5/John_Sanderson_Highway+Arbor%2C+Kentucky+Moonrise%2C+2024.jpg?format=2500w

Sparta Road, Kentucky

[Michael R]

Excellent as usual. Nicely done.


https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b46b0607e3c3a7a060eacde/1722971097055-L4KATDM5D5LB8H9SNDF5/John_Sanderson_Highway+Arbor%2C+Kentucky+Moonrise%2C+2024.jpg?format=2500w

Sparta Road, Kentucky

[rrunnertexas]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53858557317_7261122b4f_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2q4ibFP)Eastman Darlot Texas Highway (https://flic.kr/p/2q4ibFP) by rrunnertexas (https://www.flickr.com/photos/18736302@N03/), on Flickr

Texas State highway 207 - Eastman Dry Plate, full plate size, Darlot 3 lever wide angle lens