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Monthly Archives: November 2012 I took a video the night I shoot these images, some parts are dark when my flashlight is off but when my little headlight is on you can see the desert floor as I hike back to camp. I mentioned in the video that I started taking the time lapse series around moonset. The time […]  Tucked away in a corner of this extraordinary planet there is a place called Racetrack Playa. Large rocks move across the playa leaving behind a trail several hundred yards long. It remains a mystery how these rocks are transported. If I approached the problem analytically (as a geologist that’s what I do) I’d have to […]  When I walked into Death Valley I was in darkness. I know intellectually there is a picture but I can’t see it. However, I do know that given a long enough exposure my camera will be able to record what my eyes cannot see. That is the one incentive that kept me moving forward. Each […]  When it comes to National Park visitors, Death Valley is ranked low. When I arrived it was windy, sunny and hot. Everywhere I glanced I saw scenes from the Clint Eastwood movie “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.” The landscape is naked, simply dirt and sky mile after mile. Typically, my photographic destinations are filled with immediate […]  My original approach to visiting Death Valley was like any other photography trip I’ve taken. Get up early, shoot the sunrise, drive some, shoot the sunset and then settle in for a good nights sleep. After learning that DV (Death Valley) got really dark at night I thought that a whole new opportunity was possible. […] |
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