Chalk Bluff Road

• Margaret Fuller.

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One of the absolute joyful things that you can experience in a desert is the golden hour light during sunset. For an extended period, I used to shoot directly into the sun to get the most exciting and contrasty part of a sunset sky. But as I matured as a photographer, I learned to focus more on the softer side of the sunsets and sunrises. While the mountains are known for mornings, the desert is the quintessential sunset spot for me — especially the glow of the last light of the day.

This is why the eastern Sierras is one of my favorite places, you have some of the tallest peaks in the USA for sunrises and a high desert for your sunset shots, all you have to do is turn around. We were at the volcanic tablelands near Bishop. I was shooting Owen’s river with the sierras in the background. The sun has gone behind the peaks, and we were about to call it a day when this pink light started to light up the distant hills in the northeast direction. The light was just gorgeous, and I decided to add our car to the frame to give some scale to this unbelievably majestic landscape.

• John Muir.

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Another shot from Volcanic Tablelands location near Bishop, CA. This was the location where w got to see a 360 degree sunrise and this was shot taken directly pointing at the setting sun. In my opinion the sky was magical that day and desert sunset lived up to my expectations.

Hope you all like it, thanks for visiting..

• Rainer Maria Rilke.

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Owen's river is one of the most confused river I have ever seen, when you look at it from some elevation, it seems as if the river just couldn't makeup which way to go. So it meanders through the Owen's valley twisting around making u-turns after u-turns.

I had this shot in mind since the first time I was in the area but had no idea where to make the shot, I was thinking of getting a shot from the sierra overlook located in the white mountains drive but it was simply too far away from the river to make an interesting shot. While we were at our cabin, I was looking through the multitude of brochures we collected, I came across the amazing feature just north of Bishop called Volcanic Tablelands, a location known for its petroglyphs, but there were some vandalism reported and hence there were no maps available for the place online. The Volcanic Tableland area has no paved roads and its pretty difficult to get to some of these locations.

So we headed to the Bishop chamber of commerce visitor center and after convincing the lady there that I was indeed a photographer and not a vandal, she gave us some guidance on locations that would look have good views of the valley below. So we headed out that evening to the location and reached a fair bit before the sunset, and the view was spectacular. I made this stitch pano shot to emphasis on the vastness of this beautiful desert landscape. Plus we also got to see one of the most vivid sunsets we have seen in a while, but more on that later. Thanks for visiting and have a nice day..

• Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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A shot from volcanic tablelands near Bishop, CA. This shot was taken a bit after the last shot I posted from this location. What you are looking at it’s the meandering Owens river passing through Owens valley with the sierra Nevada mountain range in the background.

We watched one of the best sunsets in a long time at this location, the sunset light could be seen all around us. The sun was setting directly to north west while lighting up a ridge line which was to the south east and clouds over the Owens valley were displaying brilliant colors.

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