Tag:Photomatix
This view of Death Valley was taken from near the intersection of the West Side Road and the track that leads up into Johnson Canyon. 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. Again, the light was a curious mix as, to […]
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. Death Valley records 2.36 inches (60mm) of rain annually. Curiously this rain just hovered over the hills. I had a few drops fall on my […]
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 40-mile dirt road takes you to the west of Badwater Basin. This view is looking south, in the direction from which I have come. The […]
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 cite different dates) to process gold from the Ashford Mine about 5 miles to the east. The mine and mill had a checkered history and […]
So yesterday I posted a wide angle (17mm) shot of the Bowl of Fireand today I’m posting a detail. If you look at yesterday’s shot there are two outcrops of the red Aztec sandstone, one on either side of the frame. This is a detail from the right hand outcrop. Taken two minutes after yesterday’s shot, this was taken with an earlier version of the Canon 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III USM (B&H). Again, the exif data on this show shows the […]
This is a wide angle view of the Bowl of Fire. As the crow flies, it’s about 30 miles east of Las Vegas to the north side of Northshore Road in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area. While the work ‘fire’ might lead some to think it’s volcanic in origin, the red rocks are actually a sandstone that contrasts with the surrounding gray limestones. There are a number of trails that take you right up to the rocks where a […]
