One more post with these dead trees at sunrise before moving on to something new. In these two compositions I placed the sun behind the tree to block it and let the shadows from the trees act like leading lines to draw the viewer into the image.
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Death Valley — Day 4
The alarm goes off and I’m up to look out the window to see if I can confirm the weather man’s prediction, that the wind would stop. And for the first morning that I’ve been doing this the trees outside our room are not blowing. Everything was still. Hooray!! That means for the first time since we’ve been in Death Valley we will get to shoot the sand dunes.
When we got there we realized that all that wind has done some good. It had covered up all the foot prints left by all the previous visitors. So finding interesting subjects with no signs of the hand-of-man would be easier.
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Death Valley NP Image
I started to make my first post a factual post but since this is a photo blog I thought it would be better to start off with an image post. I decided to start with one of my favorites from a recent trip to Death Valley National Park. There were many photo opportunities in DV but I’d like to give you the back story for just one image, the thumbnail for my Death Valley Sand Gallery. There are several sand dune areas is Death Valley. However, only two of them are “easily” accessible. The first, and most visited because it is quite accessible, is Mesquite Flats near Stovepipe Wells. Read the rest of this entry »