Originally posted by rmrufener mtngal, don't you live in your travel trailer somewhere in the desert west? I've seen a number of your photos while reviewing the earlier pages to this thread, and enjoyed them all. It must take a lot of courage to live as you do. Last summer, my wife and I took 10 weeks to travel the Canadian Rockies, Alaska Highway and Alaska with our travel trailer. While we enjoyed it immensely, I could not live full time in that. I took over 3,000 pictures on that trip, but they were with the K10D, and this is a KP thread, so I'm out of luck. I only got out 2 times with the new camera, so I'm limited to the pictures I took on those outings for now. If you get sick of covered bridges, let me know.
I did make an attempt at backlighting one of the bridges to see how it would turn out. I'm not sure if I like it or not.
I like your bridge photo, very nice. The back-lighting came out well - that’s a hard thing to do (I rarely manage to get anything useful when trying backlighting, except for perhaps cholla cactus).
I did the Alaska Highway and Alaska, returning by the Cassiar Highway in 2018 - in fact, I bought the KP just for that trip. Loved it, spent 3 months on the road caravanning with friends of mine (we did our own caravan, not a commercial one) - such an awesome trip! It was on that trip that I discovered how much easier it was for me to use the KP over the K1, so I use the KP now most of the time.
And yes, I’m a full-time RVer and at the moment I’m camped in the Arizona desert, enjoying warm days and not shoveling snow. In early March I’ll probably go up to Nevada - Valley of Fire and Lake Mead - or maybe something else will sound interesting then.
Don’t know that full-timing takes courage, just the usual RV skills. After 4 years and over 50,000 miles, I realized my little trailer was far more my home than the house was, so why own the house? I think this makes a nice spot to spend some time (taken at around sunset the night before the rain, liked that last little bit of yellow sun on the side of the trailer with the dramatic sky, though perhaps I should have done a little more post processing to adjust the mid-tones a bit in the foreground, it’s a bit dark perhaps, but reflects the real lighting fairly well).
But full-time RV life is not for most people (well, RVing in general isn’t for many). You have to have a rig you are comfortable with and because it’s a non-traditional lifestyle, there are some unique challenges, even more than the usual ones you have with living in a relatively small, mobile space. The biggest one is my friends not understanding that I’m not moving TO anywhere, that the question “where will you live” doesn’t have an answer beyond “wherever I happen to be parked.” I’m giving it a year and then will decide whether I want to home-base somewhere or not.