I have a habit of doing some one-day photo trips that impress some people as being, well, totally nuts. Example: At the end of September I did a long one-day trip over Carson and Monitor Passes, south on highway 395, up a bunch of gravel side roads, finally ending up at Lee Vining for a cup of coffee and some over-priced gas before turning around and retracing my steps. (See Anatomy of an Aspen Blitz at my other web site.) I started at 3:30 a.m., travelled well over 600 miles, shot several hundred frames, and finally arrived home at 11:45 p.m. – and then spent a couple of hours doing initial work on the images.
I’ve been outdone. Jim Goldstein also did a recent one-day excursion to the eastern Sierra, about which he writes:
On the road at 1 AM and not stopping until 11 PM…
1:00 a.m.! There’s not enough coffee in the whole central valley! :-)
Read more about his experience in a post at his web site.
Well… I should clarify. It was a two day trip but I pretty much did the same thing two days in a row. One day out and one day back. I don’t know if that makes it more or less impressive. The photograph in the post you linked to was the last shoot of the day around 10-10:30PM.