Three Days on Two Wheels

[PAULBACH]

Statdawg, RedRider and PaulBach spend three days touring the Adirondacks and Vermont. Come along and Visit
-Prospect Mountain views of Lake George
-Riparius
-The Hudson River
-A Ural Dealer in Chestertown
-The Appalachian Gap
-The Great Sacandaga
-Rt100 in Vermont

and much more.

Click Here (http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=cvmipnr.anbhhh3f&Uy=50qyi1&Ux=0)

Sample Photograph:

[Newstar]

Incredible pictures! Some look like postcards.
Thanks for sharing!

[snoone]

Am I feeling jealousy or envy? Next time I'm coming!! :dance

[tessler]

Am I feeling jealousy or envy? Next time I'm coming!! :danceOh yeah, promises, promises! :stick
(uhm, next time I'm coming!)

Paul, Stat and Red: Great stuff!

[Mika]

Can you help a fellow rider? :banghead

I am jealous and Kodak website challenged. I can get to website but can not get the pictures. I must of done something really bad the last time I was in Rochester. :brow

[SheRidesABeemer]

I give you a 10. :clap Great report. It seems like a lot of discipline to stop and take all those shots. You did a nice job capturing the essence of that area. A treat to look at when stuck at a desk on a dreary raining day...

Was that train in motion when you got the shot of it cross the road? That was cool.

[Burnszilla]

Excellent!

[username]

i give it two thumbs up!

[PacWestGS]

Excellent Paul. Is photography the primary pastime only accompanied by riding to get there? Or, is this a case of which came first, the egg or the chicken?

Another great journey captured for life... :thumb :thumb

[MrBee]

These photo's are outstanding. What king of camera are you using? Any filters over the lenses?

Thanks,
MrBee ( Wanting a new camera)

[PAULBACH]

If anyone has trouble getting the shots please send me an email address and I will send a direction invitation from the Kodak website.

RedRider and StatDawg are very patient. They also stop and take a few shots. Good guys to ride with.

Now that I am retired the motorcycles served as great platforms for photography. I can ride almost all day on the F650 with just a tank or two of gas. It gets from 68 to 73 mpg. The K750 gets about 55. The sidecar rig only gets about 33 ~ 35 mpg.

Vermont and the Adirondacks are easy to get good shots. Just about anyplace you point the camera comes out fine.

I use two cameras; a Canon Digital Rebel and a Canon A700. These shots were all with the A700. It fits in the motorcycle jacket and uses two AA batteries. It has a 6X optical zoom and can take between 800 and a 1,000 shots on one set of batteries. But I only use the optical viewfinder and turn off the display. That saves a lot of battery power and speeds up composing.

[userw5]

Very nice report and photos :thumb

[tessler]

Excellent Pual. Is photography the primary pastime only accompanied by riding to get there? Or, is this a case of which came first, the egg or the chicken?

Another great journey captured for life... :thumb :thumbDoc,
I've had the honor to have ridden with Paul on an (albeit brief) excursion around the Saratoga Springs, NY/VT/MASS border area this past Summer and can vouch that he's the real deal. The results of his labors prove that he's as consumate and dedicated to the art of photography as he is to his love of motorcycling.

[SNC1923]

Great pictures. Glad it was a great ride. Thanks for sharing the shots.

[PacWestGS]

Doc,
I've had the honor to have ridden with Paul on an (albeit brief) excursion around the Saratoga Springs, NY/VT/MASS border area this past Summer and can vouch that he's the real deal. The results of his labors prove that he's as consumate and dedicated to the art of photography as he is to his love of motorcycling.

Small hijack -

Jon, same for me, I started with a bike before the camera, then found the camera, loved the art and studied it for years. Then one day after amassing a great collection of Canon 35-mm SLR bodies, lenses, filters, etc. Some thief found them more valuable then me (car break-in). I was more pissed about losing seven 36-exposure rolls of shot film during my two week trip through England than the $800 or so dollars of equipment (that was back in the ‘80s), but that was the end of a long passion. I still had my Canon A-1 and 35-70 lens (as it was with me at the time). Long story short: motorcycling and photography are now mixed more for the sharing of digital shots than memory making and semi-professional side line. I still would like get back into it with a super DSLR (Canon EOS 30D or Nikon D200) but I’m living with simple ready-shoot cameras now.

Life through a lens can be rewarding in many ways – but now it’s the journey and the memories I take home – that make taking THAT picture worth a thousand words.

Paul captures those very very well here and in his other travels as well.

I was just asking which came first because they can both compliment each other or live separately by themselves. :D

Russ

Hijack over -

[redrider]

Wonderful Job of putting it all together.What a myriad of choices for my desktop screen.Planning on telling the folks about the next trip.....hint..."looks fishy to me" :laugh

[PacWestGS]

I am planning a trip back here. :thumb

Will you take me, please, pretty please, with honey and sugar on top... :thumb

I'm packed or will be... :dance

[BradfordBenn]

Very nice :thumb

[PAULBACH]

StatDawg put the first trip together from the forum. The next trek will most likely be linked to Americade. Anyone is welcome.

[bluestune]

Thanks for taking the time to shoot, then post, all the great photos! Ride reports like this keep me going till spring. :thumb

[BobMielke]

Very cool pics Paul. Dontcha love the advances in posting technology in the past two years? Great report!

[PAULBACH]

Just as amazing is how much computers have shrunk. Paul Glaves's laptop inspired a purchase of a new laptop for on-road use.

DVD & CD burners
WiFi and Blue Tooth :thumb
1 Gig of memory
XP Pro .:type
60 gig storage

2.5 lbs and it would fit in a tank bag. The keyboard challenges fat fingers like mine but it just cannot be beat for on the road use.

Sometimes smaller is better.