Sunset storm along the "Loneliest Road in America"

I'm on my way to RENO area to photograph a wedding.
You get to see a beautiful sunset a beautiful storm a beautiful truck and a beautiful airstream.

I usually drive the I80 westward from Utah toward Reno... but this time I had a couple days so I took Route 50... in fact i'm still on it... sitting in the airstream with some nice sunny weather doing some work and editing pictures from last night.

THE LONLIEST ROAD

While there are other roads in the country with even less traffic this is perhaps the LONGEST important highway in america to have this little traffic. I have been on it for 2 days now and there are times when I don't see another car for 1-2 hours.

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Many times i'd just park in the middle of the highway to take pictures but I did park OFF the highway while I took pictures of this storm at sunset... good thing because while i was there for about an hour there were 2-3 cards that came by.

KEEP ON MOVING: A photography lesson


I just couldn't believe my luck to get this amazing isolated storm cell right at sunset... but then again i believe it because I kept on moving. I had places i thought about stopping for sunset and hoping for the best but I kept going and basically stumbled into an amazing opportunity.
AKA don't wait for opportunities to come to you... go keep looking for them.


I'm also testing out an 8-15mm lens


I just kept on taking pictures as the sky changed constantly... this is one of the first shots as I first got to the location.


This was one of the last shots as the storm passed by and the sunset subsided and worst of all the mosquitoes came out in FORCE. Like I went RUNNING for the truck... it was horrible. haha

In any case I'll be heading up to visit @scottshots near Lake Tahoe then doing the wedding on Saturday in Virginia City, Nevada.

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