your favorite highway photo

[agentsteel53]

what is your favorite photo of a road you've ever taken?

I've got several but this one always seems to come to the forefront.  I love how the colors came out on this one.  It's a long-exposure photo and I illuminated the trees using an incandescent flashlight.  I think the whole thing is about a 20 or 30 second exposure, with moonlight on the clouds.  I certainly know it was well past midnight when I got to this section of highway!

US-97 in Washington - old Blewitt pass, not maintained since 1964.  I drove it in October, 2007, in the dead of night.  Here is the beginning of the pass, not long after the road splits off modern US-97, with a much more reasonable mountain crossing.  Note the old white middle stripe on this road.


large version: http://www.artistjake.com/lj/DSC_7670A.jpg

After this, it kept going up.  31 degrees, fog settling, a mountain on one side and a cliff drop on the other, and elk, elk, elk everywhere!  I loved this drive because it was so uncertain - would there be a rockslide around the next bend preventing my further passage?  Would I have to back out, driving a mountain pass in reverse until I found a stretch suitably wide in which to turn around?  I was hoping I could go up the mountain and come back down and rejoin the modern road without incident, and I certainly wasn't sure if I could do such a thing.

and, hey, look at those bright yellows and oranges of the fallen leaves!

[Alps]

I don't take the time you do, but this is probably my #1 - I-190's southern bridge onto Grand Island.  www.alpsroads.net/roads/ny/i-190/sgrand.jpg

[agentsteel53]

I love that photo.  I've already told you that! 

take more time!  you clearly have the talent to take great photos, so do it!

[Jim]

That's a tough one.  Few of mine are artistic by any means, but here are a few of by favorites:

From the rest area on I-90 West overlooking the Missouri River near Chamberlain, SD:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/chamberlain.jpg

Denali peeking out from the clouds from the Parks Highway in Alaska:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/denali-parks.jpg

View up to a Hana Highway bridge from a stream, Maui, Hawaii:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/hanahighway-viewbacktoroad.jpg

The former Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/lavahike-noparking.jpg

Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, US 64 near Taos, NM:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/riograndegorgebridge.jpg

OK, so it's a "marine highway" not a regular highway, but a favorite - taken from the M/V Matanuska departing Skagway, AK:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/skagway-flag.jpg

US 84 near Pagosa Springs, CO:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/us84-colorado.jpg

US 550 in northwestern NM:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/us550.jpg

Alaska Highway bridge over the Yukon River:

http://www.teresco.org/pics/backgrounds/yukonriverbridge.jpg

[agentsteel53]

wow damn I surely gotta drive the Alaska Highway in BC and Yukon!

here is my one Denali photo ... from about 300 miles away, even!  At sunset, under maximum zoom on my 200mm lens.



the next day, when I tried to spot it, it was hidden under low clouds.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Probably this. I have a bunch of photos of the Zakim Bridge in my Flickr favorites.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmack24/1193786774/

[Ian]

Here are my favorite highway scenes:
-Beach Blvd, Long Beach Island, NJ: http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/NewJerseyTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5341343500343293458
-NJ 72 west of Manahawkin, NJ: http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/NewJerseyTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5341343753307253586

My favorite highway sign photos:
-exit 7A off of the NJTP: http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/NewJerseyTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5343891597076737106
-I-95 in Providence, RI with a large diamond lane ends sign:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/RhodeIslandTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5324327826445146866
-exit 25-26 off of I-91 in Wethersfield, CT:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/ConnecticutTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5323241990546391218

[Hellfighter]

I love this photo of the Alaska Highway overlooking Mt. Sanford

http://www.photoworld.toya.net.pl/Alaska/jpg/007.jpg

[RoadWarrior56]

I have driven the entire Alaska Highway.  I highly recommend the trip.  I even had to stop to allow a heard of Buffalo cross the road in northern British Columbia while on the Alaska Highway.

[Alex]

The best highway scene I ever saw, Interstate 70 ascending the San Rafael Reef.

[Alps]

Sideling Hill on I-68 is pretty, too - at least for the East Coast.  http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/md/i-68/sh3.jpg

[Duke87]

Freeway with mountains off in the distance is nice. Though, freeway with city off in the distance has its own appeal. Take this shot of I-95 in Stamford:


Photo quality could be a little better, but it's still a great shot. Got a bit of a single point perspective going there.