Sleeping arrangements?

[Wayland]

Just as a matter of interest what sorts of accommodation do you use when out working a landscape trip.



I use a combination of wild camping and sleeping in my vehicle when that is not possible.

I tried hotels and the like but the schedules revolving around "normal" guests are so incompatible with landscape photography in my experience.

[Bonish Photo]

Great Shot Waylan!

If you were to follow my link, my wife and I travel fulltime in a 25' Travel Trailer that we pull around North America and use as our rolling camera gear hauler Sort of a rolling photo lab if you will.

I agree with you that staying in normal accomodations are not that keen to travel photography. This is why we outfitted our camper with solar panels and lifted it off the ground to get us to secluded locations normal Glampers (Glamorous Campers) can get to with their stock RV's. This also allows us to stay in a certain location to wait for sunset, sunrise or the right weather to move in without having to go look for accomodations.



But I'm not afraid to get in a tent every now and then.



Sometimes you need to go that extra mile to find that perfect camping spot



Or really take those back roads where you wont find too many other campers



But in the end, it usually pays off!!

[gldiana]

Wayland,
that's a great photo.
Pat also like very much yours of the tent in monument valley, what I like most is the lack of contrast between tent and landscape. Who says everything has to always have come contrast?
Also love the last one with the palm trees. Chicago, right?

[Bonish Photo]

Yep, Chicago, we were camped right along Lake Michigan

Yeah, I like that one of the tent too! Thanks for the comments

[jmthompson]

When I am traveling by myself (most of the time...someone has to stay home and pay the bills!!!), the seats fold flat in the back of my truck and an air mattress makes a comfy bed!



When my husband and I travel together, we bring pack kids to carry our tent. They work great, and we have a couple to rent if anyone wants them (teenagers!!!).


Backpacking to Bomber Mountain in the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area

Jana T.

[Edd]

Okay I have to admit I don't sleep in my car as its a little on the small side.

Its a Classic Car, an MG B GT from 1976 and they were on sale in America too. Infact the rubber bumpers/fenders were designed for the American market !!!!!

I try to use it to get me to the places so I can use my camera. These were taken on a trip to the Black Mountains on the Welsh/English boarders.

Had to stop for an icecream, I wouldn't allow it to be eaten in the car.



Stopped in a field somewhere so my wife could look at some horses.



Here we are parked with a lot of other MG's at a Hall. We were all taking part in a Classic Car event (just for fun). I have circled our car.



These pictures were taken on a P&S.

Ed

[jmthompson]

Great car Ed!!! My brother has a 1946 MG convertable. One of the classic stories of "finding it abandoned in a barn". It only had 600 miles on it when he bought it in 1985, and only has 1400 miles on it now. I will have to get some pictures on my next weekend in Wyoming! It was stored in a "secret" room in the back of a barn when he found it, and was in EXCELLENT shape, not even a scratch in the paint, and he traded some work for it with the estate that owned it. He definitely got a good deal (the estate manager didn't even look at it first)!!!

[CG415]

Great car Ed!!! My brother has a 1946 MG convertable. One of the classic stories of "finding it abandoned in a barn". It only had 600 miles on it when he bought it in 1985, and only has 1400 miles on it now. I will have to get some pictures on my next weekend in Wyoming! It was stored in a "secret" room in the back of a barn when he found it, and was in EXCELLENT shape, not even a scratch in the paint, and he traded some work for it with the estate that owned it. He definitely got a good deal (the estate manager didn't even look at it first)!!!

Ahh! That lucky Dog! Why can't I be that lucky in finding my 1957 Chevy 2 door hard top! Oh well someday I will have worked enough and killed enough mosquitoes to pay for one I guess.

Edd, Nice car! I have always liked the looks of the little MGs. I guess in my mind they look like the poor mans classic Aston Martin.

Peace,

[bob_r]

Ed,

A friend of mine rebuilt an MG midget and asked me to go for a test drive with him. Now I am anything but a midget! We had to put the top down just to allow me to get in and then my knees were against the dash and my head was at least four or five inches above the windshield. It was a very short test drive and my one and only ride in an MG. I'm a gas guzzling SUV kind of guy!

[Edd]

Thanks guys for your comments.

Jana - Lucky find or what !!!!!!

Bob - Have a 4x4 as well to help out with pulling horses and the more difficult terrain if required

Wayland - sorry I didn't mean to hijack the thread

Ed

[Wayland]

Snip> Wayland - sorry I didn't mean to hijack the thread

Ed

Not a problem Ed, I'm always interested to see where threads divert off to, it's half the fun of forums.

Nice motor by the way but it just wouldn't carry the stuff I need for my work..... http://www.lore-and-saga.co.uk.

[oTTer]

I want to go shooting with Pat.
Fun, fun, fun.
Any time I've ever been off somewhere else, I've had to stay in a hotel and I don't have a problem with the other guests because nothing stops me from getting up whenever I want, or coming back whenever I want. I've left at 4:30 a.m. to park by a lake and look at the stars in Colorado... I have a Dodge ram truck, and have been known to sleep on the front seat when I get pooped (better safe than sorry) but it's not an overnight accomodation.
I was going to Glenrock Wyoming for a painting workshop, and when I got tired I pulled into a rest stop, cracked the windows, and fell asleep on the front seat around noon. Sun in the window, I was like a fat cat snoozing. I told the gals at the workshop about it and they FLIPPED. I could be Kidnapped! I told them if anyone takes me, they'll bring me right back
Turns out several years ago a young gal was on her way through the area to Casper to get back to college and she never showed. A local guy ended up in the hooskow, and his son was doing work around his dad's place and unearthed that girl's car, and at the time of the workshop, his trial was going on. So, that is why they were freaking out, but I've never had any problems.
One of the neatest places I've ever visited is Barry Smith's taxidermy shop in Hot Sulpher Springs, CO. I hadn't gotten my SLR yet, so I was still using film and a P&S... I should go back that way this fall and take the couple thousand pictures I should have gotten the first trip.
I"m thinking one of these days a conversion van or something would work out great. Even a truck with a topper, and throw a mattress in the back??

[Bonish Photo]

Cindy and I spent years camping out of the bed of our pickup truck with a thin aluminum topper on the back.

I'd have to scan them to post them as it was back in Film days, but we have pictures of us camping in Colorado in 4 degree weather with icicles hanging from the ceiling due to our condinsation after a night of sleeping.

But that was back when we were so broke, hotels were out of the question.

No worries about rest areas either, we sleep in them all the time and always have. Dont believe the media, or you might as well stay home in a bubble. Go out and explore!

[jmthompson]

I have to agree with Pat, I have spent lots of nights sleeping in rest areas. I didn't travel much by myself though when the girl disappeared around Casper, as I was the same age she was at that time, and everyone was pretty nervous because back then things like that just didn't happen around there (I lived 70 miles from where her car was found). But I figure there is danger lurking out there every where...heck, I cut my finger opening one of my pictures I had ordered just the other day... and I hadn't even left the house! I just make sure to have my camera ready all the time so I can document anything if it happens! I do have to admit I am never truly alone when I am sleeping in my truck though, I am licensed to carry, and my gun isn't far away when I am sleeping! That does allow me to sleep a little more restful at night, and gives my husband a little reassurance also when he isn't there.

[oTTer]

Yep, I agree about the weapon. I would seriously get one if it came to me travelling more like that.
Friends of ours took their kids and ski boat to Florida for a tournament. On the way home at a rest stop a group of men circled their vehicle. The guy told Walt, "Nice rig you got there."
Walt pulled his .45 from under the seat and laid it on his lap. "We like it," he said.
The guy said, "Back off boys. He's got a gun." - yikes. I suppose he could have put it in drive and gave it hell too LOL but I've pulled off the road in some of the more remote areas of Nebraska (sandhills) I mean really, one vehicle in two hours goes by. Who's gonna bother me? And it's a truck. In cattle country. Not gonna raise a lot of eyebrows.
I suspect that is where Pat took the picture of the palm tree, in western Nebraska