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An airplane window view while flying over western Nevada, looking to Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park. I've been to that location a few times over the years but have never seen this amazing landscape from over 30,000 feet before.
A setting looking to the west-southwest while taking in views across playa of Death Valley with a view beyond to ridges and snowcapped peaks of the Panamint Range. This is in Death Valley National Park. My thought on composing this image was to capture a contrast of settings between the flatness to my front with that of the mountains off in the distance.
At a roadside pullout along Badwater Rd with a view looking to the southwest and across the Death Valley basin to more distant ridges and snowcapped peaks of the Panamint Range. This location is in Death Valley National Park not too far from Badwater Basin the walking area. My thought on composing this image was to capture the contrast between the almost complete flatness of the basin to my front with the mountains off in the distance. I decided to have more of a leveled-on look as I angled my Nikon SLR camera to the horizon. I was though able to use some high ground that I was located on to include some nearby foreground to add an interest for this national park landscape.
The promise of potential lurks richly in the supposed undiscovered. Failures are forgotten. Small successes are trumpeted and used to lure the ignorant. Humans are drawn towards unimaginable personal wealth, helping to defy lifetimes of relative dull failure. And some people are just dumb bastards.
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Death Valley NP near Ashford Mill Ruins, California
Someone is always excited by the potential for quick riches, and Death Valley displayed colorful rocks that fanned those delusions and misrepresentations. The majority of mineral plays in Death Valley resulted in heartache and failure, compounded by human deceit and horrific weather realities. So it goes. Ashford Mills Ruins, Death Valley
Above Ashford Mills Ruins, Death Valley National park, California. At least we may see the answer in the rhetorical question: do humans ever learn? No. Are we like crows that are drawn to bright objects, even if oncoming traffic may erase our existence? Quite so.
Desert Gold or Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens) growing in Death Valley, along Badwater rd, Inyo County, California
Desert Gold or Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens) growing in Death Valley, along Badwater rd, Inyo County, California
Desert Gold or Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens) growing in Death Valley, along Badwater rd, Inyo County, California
Desert Gold or Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens) growing in Death Valley, along Badwater rd, Inyo County, California
Desert Gold or Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens) growing in Death Valley, along Badwater rd, Inyo County, California
Desert Gold or Hairy desert sunflower (Geraea canescens) growing in Death Valley, along Badwater rd, Inyo County, California
A view from and Overlook point that I found the day before at Dantes View. This is a look straight down 5400' to Badwater Basin right at the base of the mountainside. To put this another way, I was at about 5400' on this mountainside. Below me was Badwater Basin at 282' below sea level. To me, it kind of boggles the mind, but at the same time the views from up at this point across the Death Valley floor were just amazing. There were rich colors all across the basin and even into the Panamint Range on the other side of Death Valley.
I was walking around Dantes View, taking in the mountain peaks all around and the desert floor below. Because of the angle of the morning sun, I kept noticing that my shadow was coming across on the bottom portion of the images. I tried to move around to get rid of that, but then I recalled a friend had taken similar image on a Facebook profile…and that gave me an idea. So I took a few with a view that looked looking across Death Valley to Panamint Mountain. That's the story behind this image.
A view north from Mormon Point. To the image left are peaks of the Panamint Range. To the image right are peaks of the Amaragosa Range. One can even see a few wisps of clouds far, far off in the distance.
While on a California highway in Death Valley National Park on morning in April.
