With the sun setting on the horizon and thunder clouds rising into the distant evening sky, Lake Verret is about to slip under the wing of this Southwest Boeing 737.
Tag Archives: OnOne What I liked particularly about this scene was the strip of cloud obscuring the sun. Below the cloud, the sun is casting radiant colors while above the sun is illuminating the higher clouds seemingly from below making the bottoms white and the tops grey. show 1 comment 
[...] took this image from my 19th floor window at the Grand Rapids JW Marriott shortly after sunrise. On the left is the JW Marriott and on the right is 144 Campau Circle NW, [...]  Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday. This image is still my favorite Mardi Gras photo to date, though the trombone player cuts a close second. show 1 comment
[...] Fire Embers (Click image for larger view) Since yesterday was Mardi Gras, that makes today Ash Wednesday, so here’s a photo of some [...]  This lady was riding with the Krewe of King Arthur in their 2009 parade. Her costume and face paint are resplendent with these traditional colors. She’s chosen to use face paint in place of a mask. no comments  So if you saw yesterday’s photo looking south along West Side Road, this one was taken five minutes earlier, but looking north rather than south. You can see that I’m standing in bright sunlight yet less than a mile away a band of rain is sweeping across the Panamint Range and more specifically, Galena Canyon…. show 2 comments
[...] The rain was still falling but most of it seemed to be evaporating before getting to the ground. The zone of bright green bushes was in a slight depression that clearly captured more of the scant rainfall than the gravelly area immediately in front of me. [...]
[...] in the photos of the rain over Galena Canyon and Johnson Canyon, the rain here hangs in the sky but it was quite a quite feeble drizzle by the [...]  So the only previous time I’d been to Death Valley, I stayed to the blacktop. But this time, this time I thought I’d try the dirt road capabilities of my rented Infiniti G35 Coupe. A few miles north of Ashford Millon Route 178 you can turn left onto the West Side Road. Aptly named, this… show 5 comments
[...] Canyon (Click image for larger view) So if you saw yesterday’s photo looking south along West Side Road, this one was taken five minutes earlier, but looking north rather than south. You can see that [...] 
Brings back memories, driven a few miles over this type of highway (IN A HIRED VEHICLE!) actually found them quite serviceable at moderate speeds, only trouble is a hell of a lot of dust if you meet anyone.
[...] Fan (Click image for larger view) A little further north on the West Side Road, I captured this view east across Badwater Basin of an alluvial fan at the base of a washout in the [...]
[...] River, Death Valley (Click image for larger view) This photo was taken where the West Side Road crosses the salt creek that flows (when it rains) from north to south along the [...]
[...] the light was a curious mix as, to my back, were blue skies and white clouds while ahead of me lay the angry gray storm clouds. And, as you [...]  The ruins of Ashford Mill sit just south of Route 178 at the southern end of Death Valley in California and about 25 miles west of Shoshone. In the background of this shot are the Black Mountains; the road on the right leading back to Shoshone. The mill was built around 1914-15 (different web sites… show 1 comment
[...] I’d try the dirt road capabilities of my rented Infiniti G35 Coupe. A few miles north of Ashford Mill on Route 178 you can turn left onto the West Side Road. Aptly named, this 40-mile dirt road takes [...]  Another of my images from the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, about 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas. This is Rainbow Vista. As you travel through the park on Route 169 there’s a turnoff to the north to the Visitor Center. Continuing north, the road passes through some canyons before opening out onto… no comments  This image is of the memorial to Captain John Clark. Clark was a Civil War veteran who moved to California after the end of the war. He was found dead under his wagon on June 15, 1915, near this spot. show 2 comments
[...] (pdf). Elephant Rock is plainly visible from Route 169, a couple of miles or so east of the Clark Memorial near the eastern entrance to the park. As I recall, there’s no pull-off on the road and [...]
Re Bozos, these are a sure sign of a Civilised Society, the loss of the struggle to survive stimulates the productiuon of them.  Of course, no visit to the Hoover Dam is complete without an aerial view. Now you can get a view from the Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. I don’t know if you’re allowed to stop on the bridge to take photos – probably not. As you can see in the lower left and… show 3 comments 
Cool photo, just a note that you can’t stop on the bridge but there is a parking lot where you can walk to the bridge and get some great images. 
Hi Roy, thanks for sharing that!
[...] business. I rose super early and drove out from Las Vegas, crossing from Nevada into Arizona at the Hoover Dam and out along Highway 93, taking a left at Pierce Ferry Road and heading north-east before taking a [...] |
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woow…. amazing.
This is a very beautiful sunset