Focus Points Photography Podcast Ep 4 "The Photo Road Trip Pt. 1"

This is the FOCUS Points photography podcast where we will talk on how you can start your photography adventure with a budget and have fun doing it

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You can find Amaurie Ramirez also on www.amaurierazphoto.com . There you can find all his social media accounts also a large variety of prints for sale.

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ORIGINS

In 2013 we took a flight to San Francisco to do a Northern California road trip. We wanted two things: First, to travel to new locations with amazing sights not available in Florida. Second, to experience good coffee.

As already mentioned, we chose to travel to Northern California for 8 days. I found a route through a website called TakeMyTrip.com that took us through Northern California, Nevada, and Southern Oregon. We modified the route based on our interest, for example by starting and finishing in San Francisco.

(For show notes: http://takemytrip.com/trip-crater-lake-yosemite/)

From the start we knew this trip had to be as inexpensive as possible in order to maximize the places we could visit and stay. Since we would be on the road the majority of the time, we knew we would stay in economic (but not cheap) hotels that could be booked anytime; we would book a room depending wherever we might be that night.

We wanted to start in San Francisco because one of our first shared interests was Tech.

We were and still are to varying degrees so we HAD to visit Silicon Valley and check out—first and foremost—the Apple campus and then the Googleplex.

WHAT WE DID

Our route took us from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, Reno, Pyramid Lake, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Crater Lake, Redwood & Humboldt National Parks, a last minute trip to Yosemite, and back to SF.

Because we didn’t have reservations, we could alter the schedule depending on the situation—for example, if we planned to stay at a place for 2 hours but it actually took us 1. We added places or removed some, depending on the situation.

* San Francisco and Half Moon Bay

* Silicon Valley

* Weather

* Lake Tahoe

* Reno, Pyramid Lake, and getting lost.

* McArthur-Burney Falls

* Crater Lake

* Oregon scenery

* The winding roads at night near redwoods

* Crescent City and Klamath Cove

* Yosemite

* All the good coffee shops

Pyramid Lake was alright but I wouldn’t visit again. I would rather visit a place like Mount Shasta or some of the Oregon coast

We want to give a shoutout to Geramel Castellanos—on Instagram as @geramel88—that submitted two photos to our previous project Sunrise and Sunsets. He submitted a wide shot of a sunset in the park. Keep up the good work Geramel

We want to give a small project for those first listeners that want to start something and don’t know how:

* An easy project to start creating — roadscapes. Upload your photo to Instagram with the hashtag #focuspointspodproject

* We want to see your work and give you a shout out on our next episode.

For our lens art in the logo go to https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/technology

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