Esther's photos with the keyword: pan

2006 Pontiac Sunfire The Sunday Challenge: Panning To obtain this shot, I had my husband drive by me in sun and in shade while I took about 20 photographs at various shutter speeds and angles. I liked this one the best. Although the slow shutter speed makes it appear as if he was flying by, he was only traveling about 15 mph. The stripes on the car are genuine. In 2006, my husband learned that Pontiac Sunfires were no longer being manufactured. He had a 2004 Pontiac Sunfire 5 speed 4 cylinder front wheel drive car that he loved and he wanted to replace an older car that we had with another Sunfire. I was not picky about what type of car we drove, provided that it was red in color, probably to make up for a lifetime of driving only beige cars. My husband found a new red Sunfire that he thought fit his requirements at a Pontiac dealer in another state and bought it sight unseen. The dealer told him that the car had been detailed, which he thought meant that it had been super cleaned. It arrived and we discovered that detailing meant that it had racing stripes down the sides. We were the envy of high school students for quite some time. We also discovered what is was liked to be wrongfully stopped by the police just because you drove a red car. One stop was at night when the police were enforcing the "Move Over" law that required cars to move out of the rightmost lane or slow down if changing lanes were unsafe if a police car was in the breakdown lane with its lights on. Seeing a police car in the breakdown lane, I had slowed down because there was another car in the middle lane making a lane shift unsafe. I had not yet resumed highway speed when the police car pulled out and pulled up behind me. I drove into the breakdown lane and stopped. The police officer got out of his car and approached with his hand on his holster. The look on his face when he realized that the car was occupied by an older couple and not a bunch of rowdy young men who might have drugs or alcohol was priceless. Needless to say, he did not give me a ticket, which was appropriate because there had been no reason to stop me in the first place. AIMG 7531

Street musicians in Quito, Ecuador AIMG 0532

On the road to Uluru, Australia , we passed Lake Amadeus, a large salt lake that is approximately 180 km long and 10 km wide. It contains up to 600 million tons of salt. Salt lakes form when the water flowing into the lake contains salt or like minerals and there is no exit to the sea. Evaporating water leaves behind its dissolved salts which results in a high salinity. When, as here, the amount of water flowing into a lake is less than the amount that is evaporated, the lake disappears, leaving a dry lake. Seasonally, the water will reappear in parts of this lake, only to disappear during periods of drought. This was viewed from a small hill overlooking the Lassiter Highway. On the other side of the hill was Mount Conner. www.flickr.com/photos/ejhrap/8539303759/in/photostream AIMG_6780