Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
I liked all the different lines created by the canyon in this picture. The reddish tones in the rocks along the top of the ridge also makes the scene interesting.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
This isn't necessarily the best picture, but I thought it was cool that there was a small area of sand dunes near the mountains.
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
This is looking back over one of the valleys to the south and west of Death Valley. The sun was getting lower in the sky and I liked the way it lit the different colored rocks on the face of this mountain.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
This panorama turned out pretty good, at least in terms of stitching the pictures together and not being able to see where that occurred. The picture gives you a full view of the Mesquite Flats area.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Another picture of the sand dunes, with an interesting ripple pattern on a slope and some mountains in the background.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
These are the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes and Death Valley and was one of my top objectives for photographing on this trip. I tried to keep pushing back our arrival at the dunes as late as I could to get the late day light and the shadows that it would produce. Unfortunately we had somewhere to be that was another 4 hrs away, so I had to settle for about 4 pm sunlight. They were still cool though and as a word of advice to anyone else wanting to photograph the sand dunes in summer: Don't wear sandals - the sand was extremely hot.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
This will be my last picture of the Artists Drive area at Death Valley National Park. I liked the greenish rocks visible in this hillside.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
This is yet another view from Artists Drive. I really like this picture because it captures a lot of features from Death Valley: The dark colorful rocks from Artists Pallet in the foreground, the salt deposits from the dried up lake, an alluvial fan coming out of the canyon and some interesting rock layer patterns on the mountains in the distance.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 09, 2010
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
This is the Artist's Drive or Artist's Palette area in Death Valley. Noted for many different colors of rock caused by the oxidation of different metals in the rock. Normally when I take landscape pictures, I try to frame the picture so that all human made structures are excluded. I really liked the depth this road into the distance provided in this picture. I read something about this in a photography magazine, something about parallel lines, but can't remember why they're supposed to be good, but it does seem to work in this picture.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
This is one of the panoramas I took at Death Valley of the dry lake-bed at Badwater Basin. Panoramas seem like they should be easy, but as this picture demonstrates, I have yet to get it right. I try to set the exposure and shutter speed the same, but it rarely works out perfectly. And in this case, it looks like the mountain in the distance is tilted. Still, I like the vastness that only a panoramic can portray of this area.
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Monday, July 05, 2010
Sunday, July 04, 2010
This is Badwater Basin in Death Valley, the lowest elevation in the Western hemisphere - 282 feet below sea level.
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
This picture offers a little bit better view of Manley Beacon as well as the darker rocks to the right that didn't make it into the other picture. It offers an interesting contrast, at least for me. I will also mention that all of these pictures from Zabriskie Point were taken during the harsh afternoon sun, highlighting the drawback of trying to fit in so many sights in a short time. From what I've read about Zabriskie Point, the best light for taking pictures is during the morning, unfortunately that was not possible for me on this trip.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
This picture is also from Zabriskie Point, further to the right than the last previous couple of shots. This picture also features Manley Beacon the marble colored rock on the right side of the picture. I also like this wide angle shot because it shows the gray dry stream bed along with different colored rocks and the dry lake bed in the distance.
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rocks
Thursday, July 01, 2010
This is a little different perspective of the same landscape at Zabriskie Point. Obviously it's zoomed in, but in doing so, some of the bad lighting (glare) is cut back from the other shot and the color of the rock seems to stand out a little better.
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mountains,
rocks
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