Tag:Mojave Desert
Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase Dunes – Silver is a study in light of a photograph I took at the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. The sun had risen some 20 minutes earlier and now climbed rapidly into the sky, taking with it the side lighting that reveals the beautiful natural curves of sand dunes. We’d walked […]
Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase The Joshua Tree – Yucca Brevifolia, is found in the Mojave Desert of southern California. I captured this example when I swung through the Joshua Tree National Park in either late 1995 or 1996. These days your camera records when you took the photo, and often also where. But I captured this image on slide film […]
This image, taken from Beatty Road, is from my very first visit to Death Valley. Visiting in the fall of 1995, I recall going to a Houston Aeros ice hockey game and scoring some free nights at the Imperial Palace, Las Vegas. While that was also my first visit to Vegas, I found the desert more alluring. That day, clouds had moved in during the overnight hours. As the sun rose the sky was a symphony of color. Had I […]
The traditional definition of a desert is based on a (lack of) rainfall figure – less than 250 mm (10 in.) rainfall per year. An alternative definition is a place that lacks sufficient vegetation to support human population. the English word desert comes from the Latin ‘desertum’ meaning an abandoned place.
