Backroads Online
BackroadsOnline.com will become a way for us to indulge our love for the back country while building a library of Royalty free stock video for sale on the website. We will begin loading the site with 18 megapixel images from our new Canon EOS Rebel T2i by the end of march. The first pictures will be from Arizona and show the abundance of wildflowers resulting from the unusually heavy winter rains.
My plan for the site is to combine GPS data with pictures taken as we travel back roads and and photograph points of interest. Guidebooks and maps are helpful in planning back road travels, but lots of pictures of the actual scenery will be even more helpful. Recently the price of decent video cameras has come down to the point I can start thinking about adding video to the site. This is especially true since the new h.264 compression technology means I can show much larger and better quality than in the past.
For example, we once took some out of town visitors down the a road on the back side of the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico, USA. We considered it a reasonable drive in a van or passenger car. The road is good gravel, if a bit wash boarded and wide enough to be considered two lanes for it’s entire length. There are no streams to ford, and no serious drop-offs along the way.
Our visitors were almost panicked; holding their kids tightly and telling them it would be OK.