Tag:California
Titus Canyon Road is a one-way drive for most of it’s length. You can drive from the valley to where the canyon exits but then you have to hike into the canyon. Most people that take that route will never reach this spot, some 5 miles or so from the parking lot. This is a view to the west as the road starts to descend more steeply through the Grapevine Mountains of the Amargosa Range. In the distance you can […]
If you drive the Titus Canyon Road in Death Valley National Park, about a quarter mile after you pass through the remains of Leadfield you get to the upper entrance to Titus Canyon. I had to stop and get a few shots of this wondrous view – the most amazing folded rocks I’ve ever seen. Having taken classes in Geology as part of my Geophysics degree, to see these folded rocks literally stopped me in my tracks. Imagine the forces […]
I love deserts. I lived for five years in the Libyan Desert in Libya and Tunisia and spent a further six months in the desert in Oman. (Hopefully Libya will become a safe places to visit again in the future but I wouldn’t go there now.) The desert south-west of the USA then is a place I love to visit, though it has way more vegetation and life than the Libyan Desert. Today’s photo is of the Titus Canyon Road, […]
Another photo from my recent trip to California. For the first part of the trip we stayed at The Inn at the Cove in Pismo Beach. On the day I took this photo we’d gone down to the Pismo Beach Pier to take photos during the morning twilight – that time when the sun reaches 18 degrees below the horizon and night starts to give way to day. As daybreak neared more surfers appeared near the pier riding such waves […]
This is an image of the moon reflected in the sand at Moro Bay. I’d joined my friend James Brandon on a photo trip on the California coast last November. Unfortunately there were no clouds for pretty much the whole of the five days we were there. The upside of this was that we had to work harder to find images. There’s always something to photograph if you keep your mind open. The moon itself was and thin crescent, not […]
The perspective is deceptive and the effort it took to climb this dune in Mesquite Flat, Desert Valley, is not represented in this serene shot. A view to the north with the sun already below the horizon to my left, I wondered how this tree branch came to be here and how long it had resided on top of this dune. I can’t believe it was placed here by nature so I’ve come to think that someone else, someone more […]
