Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

• William Arthur Ward.

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Another shots from Fonts point at Anza Borrego desert6 state park. This one was taken just as the sun was going down the hills. I was not very excited about taking the shot directly at the sun but the ridge line was just too pretty not to take the shot.

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• E. Stanley Jones.

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Another shot from Fonts point, for once we had actually reached the location on time and after taking the sunset shots my wife and I were goofing around taking random portraits of us together. I started to notice the nice pink glow in the background, along with haze think enough to cut. So I setup the camera again for some more shots of the incredible badlands formations. These are the results of that particular try.

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-Gilbert K. Chesterton.

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Truly awesome feeling to be in Flickr Explore again, especially to be in the top 3. Today's shot is of the badlands formations of Anza Borrego desert state park. I used a medium tele-lens to capture some of the details of the amazing formations.

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• Novalis.

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The desert is a fascinating location for photography. The word often brings images of drab featureless landscape, but that’s seldom true. The first Desert I officially visited in the United States was at the Joshua Tree National Park, which is home to the hotter Colorado desert to the east and a cooler but drier the Mojave Desert to the north. The Joshua Trees are endemic to the Mojave Desert ecosystem.

During my first visit, I had a sensory overload and had a terrible time getting good images. It's hard not to go for an apparent wide-pano shot that captures the vastness of the place. After quite a bit of repeated visits, I learned a secret, the photographic interest of the Desert is not the color of the golden hour but the texture of its elements. I also learned that the late evening or early morning light works better along with standard or short tele. A desert is one of the best places to break out your tele focal lengths.

Today's shot was taken at one of SoCal's signature desert landscapes, Fonts Point at the Anza Borrego Desert. We were hoping for sunset but had reached way earlier than anticipated. So, I spend some time playing around with focal lengths isolating some of the landmarks visible from our high vantage point.

• Stephen Hawking.

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Last weekend we decided to finally tackle one nearby location that was forever in our radar. We have been hoping to visit the Anza Borrego desert for a long time and even made the drive once but we severely under calculated the distance and ended up at the park after sunset.

So this time we started early and reached the park visitor center in time. But rangers were not very confident in our ability to make the Fonts Point drive, so we decided to see the massive sculptures dotting the desert landscape. Anyways after spending an hour shooting the sculptures, my wife got bored and suggested we tackle the fonts point drive. I was skeptical about my offroading abilities as the entire 9 mile roundtrip is done on a dried up riverbed in deep sand. Turns out I was worried over nothing, as our Subaru outback just came alive as soon as we left the pavement, the steering become lighter and it just was a breeze to navigate the offroad path.

We reached the point about 45 mins before sunset and had the place all to ourselves. This shot is a panorama stitch image made at the point looking south towards Mexico which I read was visible on a clear day. The formations remind me of Zabriskie point at Death Valley national park, only less vivid but much bigger in scale. I am glad we finally got to visit this beautiful location. Hope you all like the image.

• Robert Quillen.

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Recently while going over some of my old shots, I came across this picture taken at the Anza Borrego desert in Southern California. I made this trip five years ago while still living in LA, and it was a casualty of my quick image selection process. I took a lot of stitch panoramas at this location, which ended up being my focus while post-processing, and then I moved on too quickly, leaving gems like this behind.

In the past two years that I have been going through my images, I have found quite a few great shots like these, and I have decided to make some updates to my photo selection workflow. In the past year or so, I have concluded that while we switched over from film to digital photography, we have also started the process of mindlessly taking images. While the run and gun style has caused a lot of problems, it has also created a massive problem cataloging the sheer amount of images that you have created from each photo outing. It got so bad for me that I started using Adobe Bridge tool to manage the sheer number of photos I have in my media folder.

I have adopted a new workflow for cataloging my images using the file rating and keyword features that are built into adobe products, and the difference is impressive. Especially with wildlife photography where each outing process creates tons of shots. If you are a photographer having a hard time managing your images, I implore you to take a look at these workflow enhancements. It will make your life so much easier.