This note follows up on an old post of mine on "camera trail running" and a recent one asking about LAB color. Since last July I've been taking my trail shots with medium long exposures and the camera in motion:
http://www.mukohlercenter.org/Trails_000.htm
On the off-chance than anyone is interested in what little I've learned about this, I've placed a pdf file on my website as well (too lengthy for these forums):
http://www.mukohlercenter.org/documents/techniqueforlongexposureshots.pdf