Titus Canyon is a challenge to capture. This narrow canyon is so deep that the floor is almost always in deep shade, but the upper portion bounces sunlight with a deep red hue. Whites become pinkish, and the blue of shade takes on a purple cast.
Horsetail falls is shaping up nicely, just as it has for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s still early in the year for the classic, iconic red water, but now is the time to get out for something different. If you’re looking for a good primer on how and when to shoot Galen Rowell’s iconic image, you can’t do any better than Michael Frye’s write up.
Me, well, I rather like watching the falls over the course of the month, plus a bit before and after February.
While there isn’t a lot of water coming over the edge right now, there’s enough to be kicked into interesting clouds of mist. Tonight’s show was good, with only a bit of fading as the sun slide down behind some thin clouds, and then brightened as it peeked out under them. AT the very end the water was almost lavender.
This crumbling pentagonal structure rests atop a hill just above the Furnace Creek Inn. It commands one of the best 360? views in the park. I find the incongruity of making a climb along a rather crumbly trail to take afternoon tea charming.
Furnace Creek Inn is the Ahwahnee of Death Valley. The buildings are built on four levels or terraces, and in the front is a water garden fed by the Travertine Spring just to the east.
This back alley is the path to the garden from the front parking lot. I’ve always held a soft spot for the geometrical forms of buildings, and the sunlight bouncing from the soft yellow walls to the stone retaining wall caught my eye.
Scotty’s Castle tower entrance floor is made up of terra cotta tiles, none the same shape as any other.
An empty white robe,
A bike with neither sprockets
nor chain nor pedals.
I’ve returned home to Yosemite, road weary and sore. Lots of pics to share, but too damn tired to sort through them all.
This image was captured at the ghost town of Rhyolite, just outside of Death Valley and about 8 miles from Beatty, NV. There’s an art installation out there, with whimsical sculptures scattered around the “Museum and Gift Shop”.
Once more, we’re getting a truly gaudy, tacky sunrise. *grin*
Enjoy the day!
Steve Berardi of Photonaturalist has a great post up on why you should memorize the ƒ number series. For those of us who are pulling our knowledge together, it’s a gentle introduction into some of the basic maths of photography. Ever wonder how ƒ stops get numbered? What is the difference between ƒ/1 and ƒ/1.4?
Thanks to Steve for this wonderful post! Go read it, and be sure to tell him you came from The Little Red Tent.
As my good friend David reported, the Cooks Meadow Elm tree has survived with limbs intact through the series of storms that snapped branches and toppled entire trees here in the park.
First evening shooting out at the El Capitan picnic area tonight. Light is definitely getting interesting on the eastern end of the El Capita wall. Be aware, the picnic area is not plowed, and I was doing a bit of post-holing up to mid-calf. Definitely worth it to have the whole place to myself.
Bathrooms are open, stocked, clean, and recently emptied. Bring a folding chair and a thermos of your favorite hot beverage. Hand and toe warmers are a good idea, too.
