Route 66 with the Ricoh GRiii

[delb0y]

I've been lacking photographic inspiration for a while now, but the last few weeks I've been travelling down Route 66 ("More than two thousand gift shops all the way!") and it's made me love taking photos again. As mentioned in the GRiii thread, I was in two minds about what camera to take. I love the GRiii - probably more than any other camera I've owned - it's truly pocketable, and the quality of the images is always great. But... that lack of a view-finder still bothers me. Anyway, the pocketability factor won out and so it was the Ricoh that came with me. Alas, the sunshine was so bright that there were many times that I was shooting blind, both in terms of composition, and settings - the screen being impossible to see in sunlight. Lesson learned; and though this may be a wonderful camera in the rain and gloom of the UK, in Arizona and New Mexico and California I think something else is potentially better.

All that said, I still had a ball, and managed a few decent shots and it has rekindled my enthusiasm. I took something like 480 images (having been a bit off the pace photographically, recently, I neglected to take a spare SD card, and the card I had only ran to about 480 shots). But I took that as a sign to delete as I went along. And, truth be told, only about 10% of the 480 are keepers anyway. I wouldn't dare bore you with them all, but here are a few of my favourites.

Abraham Lincoln's House, Springfield Illinois:

St Louis Cathedral:

Railroad Yard:

Diner:

Old Filling Station, Missouri:

Paul Moore's Incredible "Land Run" Monument in Oklahoma City:

Santa Fe:

Wigwam Motel, Holbrook, Arizona:

Just a couple more to follow...

 

[gramps]

Cracking set!

 

[delb0y]

And just a few more to finish up with:

The Grand Canyon with lots of people in the picture to try and give some sense of scale:

Finally, some folk having the time of their lives in Vegas:

Hopefully now I will be inspired to get back out here in the gloom and rain and take a few UK shots.

Cheers
Derek

 

[Harlequin565]

It is a great camera. If they could squeeze a viewfinder in it would be perfect. Extremely pocketable and that 28mm field of view is usable for almost everything apart from headshots. So intuitive and easy to use too.

You may be of the pace photographically in terms of volume, but looking at these, technique seems just fine.