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A tent?

Your truck bed or inside a car?

A hotel?

A RV, what type? Truckbed, quickie popup like Aliner, or a Moho.

Do you often go solo or with a mate?
 
And ultimately, photography is a lonely business.
 
Bike tour - mostly tent with the occasionnal hotel/motel/B&B

Hiking - tent or refuge.

Car camping - in the car.



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Sleep?…what's sleep?
 
There's a lot of beauty to be seen from the road, or near it, but there's so much more that's beyond a day's hike from the nearest road. The photos you get on backpacking trips tend to look less like postcards that everybody has shot.

Here was my tent at Sahale Glacier Camp; this was only 7 miles hike from the road, but it 4,200 feet above, making it a longer hike than the miles would suggest. The stargazing was phenomenal.

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This was the view from camp.

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And finally, some stargazing. This was a moonset in the Pasayten.

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This was the view from Climbers' Bivvy on Mt Saint Helens the night before my climb.

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Forrest said:
There's a lot of beauty to be seen from the road, or near it, but there's so much more that's beyond a day's hike from the nearest road. The photos you get on backpacking trips tend to look less like postcards that everybody has shot.

Here was my tent at Sahale Glacier Camp; this was only 7 miles hike from the road, but it 4,200 feet above, making it a longer hike than the miles would suggest. The stargazing was phenomenal.

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This was the view from camp.

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And finally, some stargazing. This was a moonset in the Pasayten.

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This was the view from Climbers' Bivvy on Mt Saint Helens the night before my climb.

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I used to do this regularly, but now I find it easier to hike those distances in the dark before sunrise. You can move quicker without the weight so 7 miles/4200ft isn't so difficult as long as you know your way & have good navigation skills (GPS helps a lot).

For longer distances, camping is probably easier & certainly more fun if the weather holds out. Must do it again soon, but the winter nights are a bit long now at 15 hours.

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An excellent thread for recalling why I am not a landscape photographer. I love looking at the pics, but would not be any good at the process required to take them.
 
For almost 20 years how I've kept a van of some sort with a DIY camper conversion. However, most of my "landscapes" are urban. A tent would at best be a bit odd, while with the van (which looks like any other standard van from the outside) any legal parking spot is home.

Depending on weather and conditions I hit a campground or hotel 2 or 3 times a week for a real shower.

Gato
 
In 2005 I saw amazing picture's of New Zealand. In 2006 I decided to go see if it was that good.
Er, Im still here..

So yeah, a good chunk of my landscapes are out the back door across the road and onto the beach, or 5-15 mins bicycle ride in all directions.. I tend to sleep in my own bed before shooting landscapes [insert smug comment here] :-)
 
And I'm getting one of these one of these days: http://www.sportsmobile.com/4_4x4sports.html I'm serious. My wife and I have fledged the kids for the most part, and we want to do road trips. She's totally on board. I married very well.

Saw one of these out in the Nevada mountains a year ago. Fell in love with it immediately (the one i saw was just a plain, sand-colored van with some obvious enhancements, not the tactical model prominent on the home page)There are tons and tons of places to go in the National Forests---often a lot better than the National Parks---but with budget cuts it's hard to know what condition the roads will be in. These guys can get you into justabout anywhere a vehicle could go, and you could get out again if you got into a surprise snowfall. Plus they are bear-proof. Obviously you can have your tent gear with you, but check out the floor-plans they offer.

You can get different types---more adapted to rough roads, or more adapted just to regular car camping in comfort. Not cheap by a long shot, but better than a lot of campers and more capable. There is also a very good used market that gets you into more affordable models. And because the vehicles are more or less bespoke, you can get an existing vehicle modified by the company.
 
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tex said:
And I'm getting one of these one of these days:http://www.sportsmobile.com/4_4x4sports.html I'm serious. My wife and I have fledged the kids for the most part, and we want to do road trips. She's totally on board. I married very well.

Saw one of these out in the Nevada mountains a year ago. Fell in love with it immediately (the one i saw was just a plain, sand-colored van with some obvious enhancements, not the tactical model prominent on the home page)There are tons and tons of places to go in the National Forests---often a lot better than the National Parks---but with budget cuts it's hard to know what condition the roads will be in. These guys can get you into justabout anywhere a vehicle could go, and you could get out again if you got into a surprise snowfall. Plus they are bear-proof. Obviously you can have your tent gear with you, but check out the floor-plans they offer.

You can get different types---more adapted to rough roads, or more adapted just to regular car camping in comfort. Not cheap by a long shot, but better than a lot of campers and more capable. There is also a very good used market that gets you into more affordable models. And because the vehicles are more or less bespoke, you can get an existing vehicle modified by the company.
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but that thing may spoil your landscape picture
 
I've done tent, hotel, camper, even sleeping bag under the stars. The best for me was in Death Valley.
 
DVT80111 said:
A tent?

Your truck bed or inside a car?

A hotel?

A RV, what type? Truckbed, quickie popup like Aliner, or a Moho.

Do you often go solo or with a mate?
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Not landscape as the subject but landscape as the set/ background. Unless I am on site for several days already (Las Vegas or Yosemite) I always drive to arrive to be on location at the required time. Cinder Cones , Death Valley , Ca for instance. Beam of light shoots down the hole in the cone at a specific time and lasts for less than an hour. We left at 2:30 AM.



Locations are divided into morning, afternoon and late afternoon. The morning locations all require either a drive and a set up to be ready at sunrise plus 60 minutes or more or a drive, hike and a set up at sunrise plus 60 or more.



In all cases when the shoot is done it is always breakfast, drive home, unpack and I go to bed. Needless to say clients who get morning shoots on location justify the effort. Morning light is very special but the window of opportunity is short. Then again morning locations are useless any other time of the day so special light or not, there isn't really an option if that is the choice.



Sunrise at the dam- the mirror effect only works at dawn on very still mornings, the light only this direction as well, only at dawn. 2 ½ hour drive, half hour hike. Each way. Pentax 67, AGFA Pan APX 100, Rodinal. Enlargements on Oriental Seagull, cold, double weight fibre base, grade 3, processed in Dektol, toned in selenium.
Sunrise at the dam- the mirror effect only works at dawn on very still mornings, the light only this direction as well, only at dawn. 2 ½ hour drive, half hour hike. Each way. Pentax 67, AGFA Pan APX 100, Rodinal. Enlargements on Oriental Seagull, cold, double weight fibre base, grade 3, processed in Dektol, toned in selenium.
 
Yes. Sometimes I think it is about the freedom that you have when you are on your own. Of course, it means that no one sees my stupid mistakes! ;-)
 
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