Scene on the Road

Toward the end of this summer's blog, I've asked you to share YOUR road trip photos. Some readers looked beyond the roadside, toward the skies:

Bill Corcoran, focused to infinity, and beyond this farm on U.S. Route 30 in Lancaster County, "while cruising to Fuddruckers restaurant."

"The important thing to note (along with three other photos he sent me) is that they were taken out of a moving vehicle," he added, not saying whether he was driving or a passenger.

Becky Bryan, on a mission trip to the Lakota Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, SD wrote she was "stuck" on the side of the road when their van broke down. "Fascinated by the rapidly changing...cloud shadows (that) would sweep across the prairie, turning the mundane into spectacular and back to mundane again," she captured some of the moments when there was the most contrast of light and dark. If not for the engine trouble, "I never would have witnessed this ever changing beauty," she reflected.

Jim Klotz photographed the late summer sunset over Lake Towamensing in the Poconos.

Terry O'Brien observes "many people don't know that the New Jersey Pine Barrens is within an hour of Philadelphia," and took this Oswego River kayak trip "after the water level rose a foot after the nor'easter in August. We were the only people on the River and if you stopped paddling, there was no sound - no traffic, no airplanes, even the birds were still."

Steve Perzan captured this roadside Americana along N.J. Route 47 just south of Courthouse-Dennisville Road. He calls the photo "American Honor."

"This house sells the American Flag 365 Days a year. Although the Flags are made in China they still are Old Glory for me," he says.

Harry George has been in sales for years and always carries a camera in the car, shooting "Roadside America." He and his wife were in Utah the first two weeks in May, beginning their trip at Zion National Park heading north using two lane highways, including the National Scenic Byway (Utah Route 12) through Bryce Canyon National Park through to Salt Lake City.

The antique RV, an old Dodge motor home, Harry reports, is now used as "a traffic stopper for a gas station."

In early April, Kathy Miller and her husband went into New York City and "got a little taste of Paris." They toured City Hall, with its Renaissance Revival exterior facade, and walked over the Brooklyn Bridge - "our version of climbing the Eiffel Tower." She made this photo as they sat by a fountain, "like strolling through the Jardin des Champs-Elysées."

That's why, Kathy says, "when people ask why I live in NJ I say it's because I can have a European experience without crossing the Ocean!"

Also in NYC, Inquirer staff photographer David M Warren shot the scene at right on the streets of Manhattan.

A last minute reminder: You've got one more chance to have your photo included in Labor Day posting, and possible publication in the newspaper this Thursday. Send your jpeg to me at Roadtrip@phillynews.com as an e-mail attachment. Please include info about the photo, including when and where you shot it, along with any of your thoughts about photography along the road.