{"id":13785,"date":"2021-07-30T06:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:46:01","slug":"phavorite-photos-orlando-and-velma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/07\/30\/phavorite-photos-orlando-and-velma\/","title":{"rendered":"Phavorite Photos: Orlando and Velma"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started this Phavorite Photo series a short while ago at Python Pete’s suggestion, and while going through a few of my favorites recently the photo you see above popped out.\u00a0 That’s my good buddies Orlando and Velma on their CSC RX3<\/a> headed up to Dante’s View, a natural overook that provides what has to be the best view of Death Valley (the view is shown in the photo below).\u00a0 We were on the Destinations Deal tour, and Orlando and Velma bought their RX3 motorcycle specifically to go with us on this ride.\u00a0 The Destinations Deal<\/a> was a grand ride, and Orlando and Velma are great traveling companions.<\/p>\n

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I grabbed that photo of Orlando and Velma with my little Nikon D3300, its kit 18-55mm lens, and a polarizer. The D3300 was a superb traveling SLR.\u00a0 The photo needed a little tweaking in PhotoShop to bring it up (they almost all always do).\u00a0 A bit of cropping, a correction in levels, another correction in curves, eliminating an unsightly sign that was in the background, and just a little bit of vibrance and saturation enhancement.\u00a0 Here’s what the original looked like:<\/p>\n

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I was particularly impressed with Orlando’s RX3 motorcycle. This was the second time I led a CSC tour with folks riding two up on an RX3. Orlando had no difficulty hanging with the rest of us (we were all riding solo), and surprisingly, his bike returned the same fuel economy.\u00a0 There’s a lot to be said for small bikes.\u00a0 I’ve said some of it before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have more than a few favorite photos.\u00a0 You’ll see more here on the ExhaustNotes blog.<\/p>\n

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Something we’ll do in each one of these Phavorite Photos blogs is show our prior favorites.\u00a0 Just click on the photo to get to each earlier blog.\u00a0 There’s only one so far; there will be more.<\/p>\n

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We started this Phavorite Photo series a short while ago at Python Pete’s suggestion, and while going through a few of my favorites recently the photo you see above popped out.\u00a0 That’s my good buddies Orlando and Velma on their CSC RX3 headed up to Dante’s View, a natural overook that provides what has to … Continue reading “Phavorite Photos: Orlando and Velma”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[654,89,203],"tags":[4,2160,970,2159],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-national-park","tag-csc-rx3","tag-dantes-view","tag-death-valley","tag-orlando-and-velma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/171026_7138-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14048,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions\/14048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}