Death Valley Playa

A horizontal composition to contrast with the vertical one I posted a while back. I needed a horizontal one to rotate in as my desktop wallpaper... ...

15 minute exposure moonlit with 1st quarter moon.

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Exploring the mud cracks in Death Valley is a visual treasure hunt. You have to look for patterns, shapes or interesting arrangements...and even...

Finding the mud cracks in Death Valley is like going on a treasure hunt. And we struck gold on our trip.

Back to Badwater, this time for sunset. Moe and I were pretty disappointed with the sunrise after our Milky Way shoot, so we decided that we needed...

Blue hour along a seasonal stream bed that had dried into long cracks.

Photo taken in Death Valley National Park (California, USA).

Mud Cracks in Death Valley at Sunrise. The Panamint range still had snow on the peaks. I spent so much time working Telescope Peak into my images,...

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I took this shot at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park. At 282 feet below sea level it is the lowest point in all of North America, even more interesting is that Mt Whitney which is the highest peak in the lower 48 states is only 85 miles away. The basin was considered the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere until the discovery of Laguna del Carbón in Argentina at −344 ft (−105 m). At Badwater, significant rainstorms flood the valley bottom periodically, covering the salt pan with a thin sheet of standing water. Each newly-formed lake does not last long though, because the 1.9 in (48 mm) of average rainfall is overwhelmed by a 150 in (3,800 mm) annual evaporation rate.

We visited the place early in the morning as sun was lighting up the Panamint Range and saw many tourists approaching but none of them ventured out into the salt flats deciding to just observe from the platform. We decided to venture into the salt flats and were rewarded with spectacular hexagonal formations of the salt crust.

It was well worth the sight and I would love to return here and shoot the stars one day.

Sunrise at the flooded salt flats of Badwater in Death Valley. There was about an inch of water covering this entire scene, making for great...

Honorable Mention, Color Division - 2011 Oregon Salon of Photography. Cover, National Parks Magazine, Spring 2015.

We were fortunate enough to have...

Rains the week before we were in Death Valley created new washes and new fresh mud. I stumbled upon this wash on the way back to the car after...

It was great making it back to Death Valley again, this time with a focus on photography. The desert is such a great place for photography, and...

The unusual and odd terrain at The Devils Golf Course in Death Valley. We were there in the middle of the day, but I still wanted to create an image...