White Domes Trail

• George R.R. Martin.

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In an earlier post, I mentioned learning about how to best use the beautiful light of the golden hour to my advantage. Another thing I have been focused on lately is finding the texture in landscape scenes. The grand open vistas that will blow everyone away is not easy to come by, but you often can find amazing texture everywhere you look. My two most favorite locations for finding vistas has been the desert and the rainforest. Both are often filled with amazing elements that filled with details that are easily glossed over.

This shot was taken at the valley of fire state park near Las Vegas. We were on of the many hiking trails that are available at the park when the golden hour started. Unfortunately, we were inside a canyon when the light was at its best and usually this is the time I start to panic and run to find some vista point. But this time instead of manically running around the desert, I tried to look for more intimate details of the canyon. We managed to come up with some interesting shots from this exercise and for this one, I managed a bit of the golden light as well.