Wyoming Through the Car Window ... Part One by auntietk
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Zoom is good! I've left this fairly large.
On our trip back from Kansas, we went across I-80 through the southern part of Wyoming. I'd never been to Wyoming before, and it was an amazing experience.
My apologies to those of you who love Wyoming, but truly ... Wyoming is creepy!
From Cheyenne to Evanston you're never below 6,000 feet (1800 meters), and there are many places where you're above 8,000 feet (2400 meters).
I expected mountains. I mean seriously ... the Rocky Mountains are HUGE! I live in a state where we have mountains, so I didn't expect to be surprised by Wyoming.
I was surprised!
Most of that part of Wyoming is high plains. There are places where it's flat flat flat, as far as the eye can see. Other places there are rolling hills, jutting rock formations, strangely erroded buttes, and every once in a while mountains way off in the distance.
It's weird to be at 8,000 feet, in one of the world's major mountain ranges, and see nothing but flat scrubland for miles around!
So. I wanted to show you Wyoming, but couldn't find any images that I felt really stood on their own merit.
I took about 200 photographs while we were driving across Wyoming, and I've narrowed it down to showing you 18 shots. They've all been minimally postworked ... sharpen, contrast, exposure ... but no fancy filters, no cropping, no artsy stuff. Just Wyoming, looking slightly better than it actually looked due to that whole contrast/saturation thing! :P
Items of note:
Image 1: What you see in the foreground is a snow fence. It keeps snow from drifting onto the highway, thus saving money keeping the road plowed in winter.
Image 2: Eroded hills. Cool, huh?
Image 3: Just outside Laramie
Image 4: It had snowed the day before
Image 5: All those dark lines on the prairie are snow fences. They're about ten feet high. Elsewhere in Wyoming the snow fences are about six feet, but they found that wasn't adequate for I-80.
Image 6: Middle of the Rockies. Hard to believe, isn't it?
Image 7: Wyoming is sparsely populated. We saw a lot of this sort of thing ... isolated farmsteads out in the middle of nowhere. Made me wonder ... why THERE? Why not 2000 feet away over THERE?
Image 8: Erosion patterns alongside the freeway.
Image 9: The endless open road
I've got another set of nine more images I'll be posting along with this:
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Comments (25)
Faemike55
I remember crossing Wyoming back in 1974....on my motorcycle in October... Thanks for the memories
barbdennist
I looked at part two first but I don't think it matters according to your assessment of the state. I don't think the Visitors Bureau of Wyoming will be asking you for a recommendation for a travel brochure. I liked Wyoming but to each his own. Great photos!
babuci
This collages gives a little window to the place I will never be. So for me this is a real postcard of Wyoming. So weird, I live just next to the small village called Wyoming and on that part is nothing just farms and cows...yours is more exciting even if some part is flat...lol.
wysiwig
I traveled across in 1972. We stopped for something to eat at a diner in Laramie and the singular memory of that stop was that the men and women were all dressed the same and, no offense, kinda looked the same. Nice collection of photos. It really gives the viewer a good idea of the landscape around the state.
jocko500
wonderful shots....look like your trip was fun
bazza
Nice collage of the trip very nice Tara..
whaleman
Nice collage! My one time in Wyoming would have produced nothing but white shots.
awjay
excellent presentation of images my friend
helanker
Wonderful collection here too. I likt the shots alot.
durleybeachbum
Gosh! What a place! Thankyou for showing us, if I travelled it would be somewhere I would attempt to avoid.
cfulton
I am enjoying the journey, cup of coffee in hand... live
jayfar
Another set of wonderful images.
flavia49
wonderful collage!
bmac62
Zooming makes your collage come to life. We spent the better part of a day and a half on this drive across Wyoming. Imagine doing this in a covered wagon as late as the 1860s or even a train on the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad in the 1870s.
MrsRatbag
It does allow you to see the BIG sky--it does seem to go on forever. I remember Wyoming as being the place where all the rabbits were foolishly emulating lemmings and trying to cross the highway, evidenced by the miles of flattened fur on the road. Many years ago I spent a windy night camping somewhere out there, only to discover the next morning that we'd pitched our tent in a junkyard. Great overview of the place!
makron
Wonderful collage. Very well done
RodS
I remember living in Cheyanne (at the Air Force base) back in '57 - I was pretty young then, but old enough to remember a lot of things. It's amazing what a varied landscape you'll find in Wyoming. Cool photos, Tara!
Chipka
Wyoming is such a boringly shaped state--square...but the landscape is immensely interesting...from flat to bumpy, to open to somewhat creepy in that UFO abduction sort of way. Oh, and some creepy things HAVE happened in that state, but I must say that I love this collage. The natural landscape there is amazing, and I love shot number 2...the way the rocks look grown, organic, strangely alive and soft. I love all of them, but that's the shot that grabbed me and wouldn't let go...I think I need to write a story in an environment with rocks like that! This is amazing stuff. I really, really like it.
emmecielle
Interesting images! Excellent collage! :)
lick.a.witch
Oh my goodness, what views! Those ranges are - weirdly strange and fascinating all at once! It would, I think, be a rather scary place to be on one's own. Regardless, these images are perfect and I'm so pleased you posted them. ^=^
goodoleboy
I love the sight of people-free and rugged landscape in the morning.
faroutsider
Stunning collage. I love the sense to traveling through the landscape...
icerian
Very interesting collage. Well done!
jendellas
Its all so vast, great shots!!
Merrylee
Wonderful collage...nicely done