Enjoying the Scenery

A few days ago, a friend of mine invited me to ride his favorite NH back roads, so we headed out on our motorcycles.

Here's the GPS track of the ride:

For context, most of the above is in the middle of the hilly, wooded area in the center of this map: (click HERE if map below doesn't work)


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I got some nice photos, but more by accident than anything else. I was on my KLR, a much smaller bike than the Goldwing you may already know about. It's a single-cylinder (!) bike, and so has some inherent vibration. Add in more vibration from the knobby dual-purpose tires and from the rougher road surfaces themselves, and you have a non-photography-friendly vehicle. The vibration is a killer.

Sitting still, my camera did fine, as in this shot. (Yes, that's an emu, along with my friend Skip. Skip's the one in the blue suit.)


In motion, some photos weren't blurred beyond utility:





But some were very blurred:



A few seemed to work, despite the blurring. Here are two with a nice sense of motion:







And a couple got oddly blurred enough to look almost deliberately artistic; impressionism:






Anyway, this is a slideshow (below) of some of the ride shows the gorgeous scenery we rode through. The deeper-woods stuff comes at the end:
http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd54/flanga_bucket/skip_w_ride_20080817/?action=view&current=29a8e138.pbw

Still photos:
http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd54/flanga_bucket/skip_w_ride_20080817

Garmin-format track file:
http://www.4shared.com/file/59745203/c9542a5c/skip_wareham_tracks.html

Thanks for riding along!