Q&A Forum: September 22 (Patreon)

Please ask all of your photography questions during the month of September 2022 using this forum. When replying to a post that is more than three days old it would help me enormously if you start a new discussion thread as it will be easier for me to find your question. Questions asked during the weekend may not be answered until Monday morning (Australian time zone). Thanks.

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Forum Image: Gas Station on California State Route 136 (between Death Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains) 36°34'16" N 117°59'22" W (the camera was equipped with GPS).
Captured on the 4th October 2009 with the Sony A700 + DT 16-80 F3.5-4.5 ZA
(my second Sony DSLR after the original A100). I was using Sony DSLRs for six years (as well as Nikon cameras) before I was appointed as a Sony Ambassador.

I have posted this as I will be heading back along this great route at the end of this month. I have wonderful memories of having traveled this route in 1988, 2009 and 2019. It may also serve as a reminder to other photographers that sometimes the mundane can make a fantastic image as part of a bigger story or just as an image in its own right.