The Winding Road and Switchbacks Along the Generals Highway (Sequoia National Park)

            What a drive and what views to take in! Amazing! For this image, I decided to zoom in and focus on this portion of the winding road as the Generals Highway headed downhill to the park entrance far off in the distance. With the low clouds all around in this mountain valley, I felt it forced me to have more of a focus just on the the hillside of trees and what portions of the road were visible. As for the low clouds off in the distance, I thought they did kind of add to the image. If the clouds hadn't been present, I might have been drawn to try to capture more of a look across the valley. The look downhill though had more of that swiping feel of just a winding road in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
   

Taken in: United States / California / Tulare (show map)

Taken on: May 7, 2016

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Nikon D800E

Day 9

Sequoia National Park

Along Generals Highway

Looking SE

Capture NX2 Edited

Color Efex Pro

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

UNESCO Sequoia-Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve

Sequoia-Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve

Outside

Landscape

Nature

Pacific Ranges

Sierra Nevada

Sequoia Sierra Nevada

Western Sequioa-Kings Canyon Area

Hillside of Trees

Trees

Low Clouds

Mountains

Mountains in Distance

Mountains off in Distance

Clouds across Valley

Clouds around Mountains

Clouds in Valley

Hidden in Clouds

Mountainside

Generals Highway

Narrow Winding

Switchbacks

Generals Hwy

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Camera: Nikon D800E, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, 58mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800E
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	58mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture NX 2.4.7 M
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