Re: Best Locations to shoot/visit in the USA for a visitor.
Ok... well this helps a lot. Many people will suggest that you visit our country\'s interior in Spring or Fall... examples include the following route: South Dakota Badlands to Custer State Park to Grand Tetons to Yellowstone. This is a fantastic trip with lots of amazing scenery and wildlife. It will give you a sense of what America (the continent) once was. This route is quite dramatic, and for some, is the US at its best. From here you could head into Utah which feels like one giant national park. Both Bryce Canyon and Zion are amazing fall destinations.
I have seen and photographed all of the above, but these are not my favorite landscape/travel destinations in the US. Were I to be a first time visitor in the US and I wanted to see real beauty over a 4-6 week period, I would fly into San Francisco and make my way up the coast to the Canadian boarder. If you rent an RV, you can begin by driving through Redwood National Park (I spent 10 days photographing this location), make a diversion towards the interior of CA to visit Lasen NP, Yosemite NP, and Sequoia NP, and then continue into Oregon. Oregon has amazing coastal landscapes, waterfalls, mountains and deserts. From Oregon enter WA state and continue traveling the coastal road. Here you can visit Mount Rainier NP, the Palouse Region, and Olympic NP. Like the Redwoods, I spent 14 days in Olympic NP... everything from temperate rainforest and coastal wetlands to montane habitat.
A nice feature of this area of the world is the quaint and quirky towns that you will pass or can visit on the way.
As a guy who grew up in Manhattan, went to secondary and college in the Los Angeles area and now lives in the North interior (Minnesota), I am still enchanted by the Pacific Northwest. This area is so inviting for me, that it where I hope to retire in the next 5 years or so.
I am sure that you will get a lot of amazing suggestions from this group, as the US really has some great photographic/travel locations.
bruce
Re: Best Locations to shoot/visit in the USA for a visitor.
Ok... well this helps a lot. Many people will suggest that you visit our country\'s interior in Spring or Fall... examples include the following route: South Dakota Badlands to Custer State Park to Grand Tetons to Yellowstone. This is a fantastic trip with lots of amazing scenery and wildlife. It will give you a sense of what America (the continent) once was. This route is quite dramatic, and for some, is the US at its best. From here you could head into Utah which feels like one giant national park. Both Bryce Canyon and Zion are amazing fall destinations.
I have seen and photographed all of the above, but these are not my favorite landscape/travel destinations in the US. Were I to be a first time visitor in the US and I wanted to see real beauty over a 4-6 week period, I would fly into San Francisco and make my way up the coast to the Canadian boarder. If you rent an RV, you can begin by driving through Redwood National Park (I spent 10 days photographing this location), make a diversion towards the interior of CA to visit Lasen NP, Yosemite NP, and Sequoia NP, and then continue into Oregon. Oregon has amazing coastal landscapes, waterfalls, mountains and deserts. From Oregon enter WA state and continue traveling the coastal road. Here you can visit Mount Rainier NP, the Palouse Region, and Olympic NP. Like Oregon, I spent 14 days in Olympic NP... everything from temperate rainforest and coastal wetlands to montane habitat.
A nice feature of this area of the world is the quaint and quirky towns that you will pass or can visit on the way.
As a guy who grew up in Manhattan, went to secondary and college in the Los Angeles area and now lives in the North interior (Minnesota), I am still enchanted by the Pacific Northwest. This area is so inviting for me, that it where I hope to retire in the next 5 years or so.
I am sure that you will get a lot of amazing suggestions from this group, as the US really has some great photographic/travel locations.
bruce
Re: Best Locations to shoot/visit in the USA for a visitor.
Ok... well this helps a lot. Many people will suggest that you visit our country\'s interior in Spring or Fall... examples include the following route: South Dakota Badlands to Custer State Park to Grand Tetons to Yellowstone. This is a fantastic trip with lots of amazing scenery and wildlife. It will give you a sense of what America (the continent) once was. This route is quite dramatic, and for some, is the US at its best. From here you could head into Utah which feels like one giant national park. Both Bryce Canyon and Zion are amazing fall destinations.
I have seen and photographed all of the above, but these are not my favorite landscape/travel destinations in the US. Were I to be a first time visitor in the US and I wanted to see real beauty over a 4-6 week period, I would fly into San Francisco and make my way up the coast to the Canadian boarder. If you rent an RV, you can begin by driving through Redwood National Park (I spent 10 days photographing this location), make a diversion towards the interior of CA to visit Lasen NP, and then continue into Oregon. Oregon has amazing coastal landscapes, waterfalls, mountains and deserts. From Oregon enter WA state and continue traveling the coastal road. Here you can visit Mount Rainier NP, the Palouse Region, and Olympic NP. Like Oregon, I spent 14 days in Olympic NP... everything from temperate rainforest and coastal wetlands to montane habitat.
A nice feature of this area of the world is the quaint and quirky towns that you will pass or can visit on the way.
As a guy who grew up in Manhattan, went to secondary and college in the Los Angeles area and now lives in the North interior (Minnesota), I am still enchanted by the Pacific Northwest. This area is so inviting for me, that it where I hope to retire in the next 5 years or so.
I am sure that you will get a lot of amazing suggestions from this group, as the US really has some great photographic/travel locations.
bruce
Re: Best Locations to shoot/visit in the USA for a visitor.
Ok... well this helps a lot. Many people will suggest that you visit our country\'s interior in Spring or Fall... examples include the following route: South Dakota Badlands to Custer State Park to Grand Tetons to Yellowstone. This is a fantastic trip with lots of amazing scenery and wildlife. It will give you a sense of what America (the continent) once was. This route is quite dramatic, and for some, is the US at its best. From here you could head into Utah which feels like one giant national park. Both Bryce Canyon and Zion are amazing fall destinations.
I have seen and photographed all of the above, but these are not my favorite landscape/travel destinations in the US. Were I to be a first time visitor in the US and I wanted to see real beauty over a 4-6 week period, I would fly into San Francisco and make my up the coast to the Canadian boarder. If you rent an RV, you can begin by driving through Redwood National Park (I spent 10 days photographing this location), make a diversion towards the interior of CA to visit Lasen NP, and then continue into Oregon. Oregon has amazing coastal landscapes, waterfalls, mountains and deserts. From Oregon enter WA state and continue traveling the coastal road. Here you can visit Mount Rainier NP, the Palouse Region, and Olympic NP. Like Oregon, I spent 14 days in Olympic NP... everything from temperate rainforest and coastal wetlands to montane habitat.
A nice feature of this area of the world is the quaint and quirky towns that you will pass or can visit on the way.
As a guy who grew up in Manhattan, went to secondary and college in the Los Angeles area and now lives in the North interior (Minnesota), I am still enchanted by the Pacific Northwest. This area is so inviting for me, that it where I hope to retire in the next 5 years or so.
I am sure that you will get a lot of amazing suggestions from this group, as the US really has some great photographic/travel locations.
bruce
Dec 03, 2016 at 08:31 AM
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