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Arriving at Denver Airport at about five and grateful for a minor miracle when my case also arrived at the same time ,the first task was to get the hire car from Alamo and head for Boulder, my first overnight stop.
Early on Day 2 was the time for shopping for electrical leads etc. from Radio Shack. A seven way mulit-socket was also purchased as I had lots of stuff to plug in.
Boulder also features an excellent camera shop too in Mikes Cameras.
The weather that morning was not too clever, so I headed North towards Poudre Park but neither the weather nor the autumn colours were particularly good and I took few images. Hoping for better things in Wyoming I headed north again on r287 towards Laramie and then r30 ( pic on left) and later the r487 heading towards Casper.

The weather started to clear and I had a spot of luck as a herd of cattle came down the road so I stopped to let them pass and took the opportunity to take a few pictures.

I was staying at the Hells Acre Motel which is next to some unusual rock formations that were used as a background in the film 'Starship Troopers'. Alas the weather when I arrived in the late evening and the next morning was dreadful. I took the three images for above panorama in pouring rain and the image had to undergo some sorting out in Photoshop. The weather forecast was not good so I had to forgo my intention to explore the area on foot and I headed on towards Shoshoni a little earlier than intended.

Just up the road from Hells Acre was this sign which I just could not resist taking a shot of. This is certainly the smallest place I have ever passed through.

When I stopped a bit further on to decide whether to divert to Atlantic City I spotted this spot of colour near the roadside. A curves adjustment layer in Photoshop brought out the stormy clouds in this Dimage7 28mm shot.

Though the cloudy conditions continued there was always a chance it might clear so I diverted from Shoshoni south through Riverton and Lander to the ghost town , Atlantic City. I found it a bit disappointing. The trouble is, once you have been to Bodie in California everything else in the way of ghost towns suffer. However I was able to get something to eat at the original Giessler Store and Post Office which as you can see is full of souvenirs from Atlantic City's past. It was originally built in 1893. It is now a bar and steak house.

By the time I had eaten the rain had just about stopped but no sign yet of the sun as I took shots of the lovely fall colour in the hill side on the way back to Lander.

Just before Thermopolis is Wind River Canyon and here I stopped to take some pictures of the river using slow shutter speeds. The above image shot using a 1/2 sec at f9.5 with several ND filters to cut down the light. The three colour image was done on my return in Photoshop combining three different channels from three different images registered in PS layers.

The swiftly moving river was a target for fishermen. I didn't manage to catch a catch if you get my drift but the occupants of the several boats I saw appeared to be enjoying themselves.

So arrival in Cody in the early evening ended days 2 and 3 having driven 800 miles shot a few films on the F4 and taken 180 digital images on the Dimage7. All pictures shown in this section were taken on the Dimage7.