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This is what a Jeep is for—to go places that people with normal cars cannot go; even if the only reason to go there is that you can, and others cannot. 37°51'23.3"N 120°28'14.8"W Red Hills Road/Serpentine loop

The song didn't get it right… To dream the impossible dream… To pass, the impassable road… To bear, with unbearable sorrow… To run, where the Dart* dares not go. — * My other car is a 2016 Dodge Dart, the least off-road capable car I have ever owned, the most exact possible opposite to this...

Buddy (the ginger cat) and Allie (the Siamese), in a rare moment of being in close proximity to one another, without any fighting or other drama.

This is what a Jeep is for—to go places that you cannot go in a normal car, even if the only reason to go there is that you can, and people with normal cars cannot. 39°15'00.2"N 120°34'49.5"W Somewhere along the Texas Hills Road trail. I'm sixty-two years old (my one-minute birthday was a...

Misty* and Mirrors * That's her name. She's a domesticated pet dove. Attached .txt file contains EXIF data. Lens data are invalid, because it's an ancient non-CPU lens, a 1972 NIKKOR-S 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens, wide open, with a heart-shaped cutout on the front that effectively reduced the...

OK, so here's a first entry, not really expected. My Jeep seems to be possessed by a powerful supernatural spirit of wanderlust. It frequently demands—and I dare not refuse it—that I take it out for long drives, preferably to places that normal cars cannot go, or at least places I've never...

NOT AN ENTRY! About four months ago, I got a new toy, a 2020 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk. This is a car that is made to go places that normal cars cannot go. Of all the “This is what a Jeep is for.” pictures that I have so far taken, this is the one that I would most have liked to submit...

It apparently has to do with the size of the image. These were both very large images, and I reduced the JPG quality to get the file size under 2 megabytes, which appears to be a limit that this forum imposes. The forum accepted the files, but does not display them, except as links to...

I did not violate that rule. Both my posts included the relevant pictures as attachments; and displayed properly when I was editing them. I do not know why they are failing to properly display now, but it is very clearly an issue on this site's end, and not on mine. I'll take another look...

Also from Bodie. I don't know if “eerie” is how I would describe it, but something did seem very strange to me about this bed, in one building, with money all over it. The money appears, for the most part, to be much more modern than anything that belongs in Bodie. I don't know what the deal...

Will a ghost town do? Not really spooky, eerie, or scary, but there is something about a place like this, almost completely abandoned. This is Bodie, (well, part of it, anyway; there's more to it that I could reasonably take in in one picture, even in a stitched panorama) a ghost town that has...

I'm pretty sure that's an aircraft. It was an eight-second exposure, so that's how far it flew across the scene in that time, with a blinking red light. Similar to what @Clovishound captured in this post.

Here's a shot that I got just a few hours ago. My ancient (c. 1972) 50mm ƒ/1.4 NIKKOR-S mounted on my D3200; eight seconds at ƒ/1.4, ISO 200. Not only did I get the comet, but a couple of meteors as well, in this shot. About 19:45 PDT, at a location oddly-named El Camino de Jerry.

Last night, @Seanette and I set out in hope of some slim chance of seeing, or at least photographing, the aurora. We knew it was a long shot; we live probably too far south (though there were reports of it being seen from the Bay Area, a bit farther south than we are), and too close to a big...

Out of the last few solar eclipses, I think this is the first time anyone with better equipment, able to take better pictures, than I, got any better pictures. One thing I still have not acquired is a suitable neutral-density filter to let me take pictures of the Sun. A previous time or...

Somehow, I'd failed to even take notice of this challenge, until just now, with only about an hour and a half remaining. No time, in fact, to even take and process a useable picture for it. But I remember that there was recently a very heavy downpour of rain, with exceptionally large...

Is that middle line there in error?

First entry… Three things that I love, from back to front… My wife, @Seanette (married since 13 April 1995) Our older cat Allie (who joined us over the thanksgiving weekend of 2011, at a stated age of 13 months) Our newer cat, Buddy (a former stray for several years, who, in April of 2022...

My only direct relevant experience is using ancient lenses for my F2, on my D3200. The F2, and the lenses that I have for it, predate the FX/DX distinction by several decades of course. The F2 uses standard 135 film, with a 36×24mm image area, and so the lenses are made to cover that area. I...

So, I have this other image that I have also tinkered with as part of such compositions. If I had known, back when I took this one in 2016, that I might ever want to try to use it this way, I'd have taken some shots focused a bit farther back. This one, was focused on the dandelion closest to...