Naw! It's the car color. And the low light (vs. noon sun) must help. Still, this $200 camera does pretty well, AND it fits in my pocket! (I'de like to see you stuff a telephoto in your pants)

 

Are you happy to see me, or do you have a camera in your pants?

 

Ok but I'm a little disturbed about you looking at my pants like that

 

shhhhhhh that is how I met my wife

 

That sounds kindda Captain Planet-like, so I don't know how I feel about that. Especially cuz I wouldn't know what people would do for "Heart".

I realize that I just revealed my age here so for those not familiar with Captain Planet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Planet

Fire and Air could be interesting though.. we'll see.

 

Now I have the captain planet theme song stuck in my head.

 

I don't see why not. After all, "He's our hero"

 

...to drive dirt roads!






The real reason I drove this dirt road was to work the Prescott Rally.

 

I need more dirt roads......anyone know a good Jeep forum?

 

Jeeps on dirt roads are wusses. Slickrock is the ticket.

 

Right but whats at the end of a dirt road....MUD!!!!!

 

Not in Aridzona!
I take that back, several years ago I worked this rally, it rained alot, and boy was it fun getting across Chino Valley! But not today.

 

Perhaps I can do something with this topic....we have only had 1.5 inches of rain since August 1st, so there's plenty of dirt around here! Who would have thought the drought would work to someone's advantage?!

 

That's what I was thinking when I proposed this month's topic. No excuses from anyone such as "oooh, my car's too dirty and I didn't have time to detail it to enter..."

[Hawaiian Pidgin speach mode on] Da dirter, da bettah!!!

 

Those are some clean looking breaks... mine are black now... and its inhanced by white rims... talk about dirt....

 

I'm freakin' nuts!:impatient Look at the washboard, and this isn't the worst part. Would have liked to get more of a dust trail, but...

Going the other way didn't help.

Figures, the shot from post #13 is looking better.

 

One of these months I'm going to find a CR/W MINI and submit an entries taken around sunset just to confuse everyone

 

If that's what it takes to get you to take pictures...

 

Understated sign.

This is the smoother section of Old Black Canyon Highway (first road before AZ69 was built just beyond that ridgeline.

An outake. I think I'm getting the hang of aiming the camera. Kind of exciting when I'm still accelerating in 3rd gear and start drifting in this turn.

 

Yep, I've got nooooo chance at this... :D Dirty MINI yes, picture taking skills, not so much.

 

Ooops.. would this be considered good enough for the "Dirt" theme?

 

At work now so I will miss the deadline. The pic did not turn out well. We finally got some rain and the gravel (dirt) road looked paved as the gravel was well washed. I post the pic after the contest just for grins. Yes the two dogs were back...

 

Any word on November's topic yet? I need time to think of an idea before the Dragon this weekend

 

(Your dogs are cool!)

 

I held off until the voting was over (kind of glad I did). I was hoping to get a better set of pictures as I was rushed when I took these. Never go some where to take pictures if you do not have time to do it correctly. There was a better spot a bit up the road that showed more fall color but it was very narrow and the road - though dirt and gravel - is traveled. The good spot is very narrow and I would have had to pack up if someone wanted to get by. I should have shot a few shots raw as well. I took about 20 pictures and came up with three I liked. Here is the link to the other two http://dac.smugmug.com/gallery/3750574#215692024 .

Driver vs Navigator