*** Mini Challenge #356 *** "The Road Less Traveled"

Nigel;

You have a great eye for manmade oddities. The North Korea images always make my stomach clench up for some reason. Thanks for sharing.

Keep those photos coming!

Challenge ends noon CST Wednesday

Reminder:

Challenge ends Wednesday at noon. Winners announced in the evening.

One more photo to share from a trip to Italy in 2012;

We were driving back into northern Italy after a brief side trip into Slovenia and Croatia - driving from Bled to the Dolomites near Bolzano. Because of the mountainous terrain, direct routes are tough to find. We decided to connect two main roads by taking a bypass through a regional preserve. The road showed up on Google Maps, but didn't show a name. That should have been a dead give-away. It turned out to be a 20-mile stretch of curvy mountainside road that could only be described as a glorified bicycle path - one car width wide in most places, but open for 2-way traffic. We were terrified at every corner, even though we were barely going 20mph. Wound up honking our horn before every turn just in case another car would be coming. Thankfully, we only met one other vehicle the entire hour we spent on that road - a logging truck - that had to stop, and back up about 50 feet to give us enough room to get past.

Just after that incident, we rounded another corner and saw a herd of goats on the road. There was nothing to do but stop, laugh and grab a camera as they sauntered by.

Hardly a great image, since it was taken with a tiny Canon SD4000 pocket camera back before I decided to take photos more seriously, but it's not terrible, and it's a fun memory of a road less traveled.

This was taken in Venice, Italy on my last night there. On the way back to the hotel, I couldn't resist one last shot. The stillness of the water suggests how long it has been since this canal had been last used.

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington USA at night.

Train tracks at the end of the line, light painted over multiple exposures.

carport888 said:

This was taken in Venice, Italy on my last night there. On the way back to the hotel, I couldn't resist one last shot. The stillness of the water suggests how long it has been since this canal had been last used.

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I really do like that photo

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Bill
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Bill Borne said:

carport888 said:

This was taken in Venice, Italy on my last night there. On the way back to the hotel, I couldn't resist one last shot. The stillness of the water suggests how long it has been since this canal had been last used.

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I really do like that photo

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Bill
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Thanks for the kind words!

carport888 said:

This was taken in Venice, Italy on my last night there. On the way back to the hotel, I couldn't resist one last shot. The stillness of the water suggests how long it has been since this canal had been last used.

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I like it a lot, too

agree bill. There's something "painterly" about the lighting. Great job!

Harvey, I forgot to thank you for your comments. HDR does have its merits, used judiciously.

Dude! I didn't see your picture until challenge results were posted. When I was in Venice I searched for such an image. You found it! I could spend some time enjoying it, while remembering Venice. Thank you.

John Nall said:

Harvey, I forgot to thank you for your comments. HDR does have its merits, used judiciously.

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I've come to agree with that and am trying to learn how to use HDR to achieve results that I like.