in Joshua Tree National Park while at Keys View with a view looking to the southwest across the mountain desert landscape present.
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in Joshua Tree National Park while at Keys View with a view looking to the southwest across the mountain desert landscape present.
In Joshua Tree National Park with a view looking to the west across the mountain and desert landscape present in his part of southern California. This is at Keys View.
In Joshua Tree National Park while at Keys View with a view looking to the southwest across the mountain desert landscape present.
In Joshua Tree National Park while at Keys View with a view looking to the west across the mountain desert landscape present. I felt that the ridges coming off the main mountain range helped to create a layered look leading to the more distant snowcapped peaks of the San Gorgonio and San Jacinto Mountains. I moved around as best I could to align the two distant mountain ranges on both sides, while not having the nearby ridges block portions of them.
San Jacinto Peak is the highest point in the in the San Jacinto Mountains at 10,834 feet above sea level. The San Jacinto Mountains are in the Santa Rosa Mountains and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.
Photograph taken April 2024.
A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views across mountain ridges and peaks present at Keys View in Joshua Tree National Park.
In Joshua Tree National Park at the Keys View overlook with a mountain desert setting as I looked to the west-southwest.
A setting looking to the west while taking in views across mountain ridges and peaks present at Keys View in Joshua Tree National Park. What I wanted to capture with this image were the layers present from the nearby foreground, leading up to some ridges coming off the Joshua Tree Ranges, and then finally the more distant ridges and peaks of the San Jacinto and San Bernardino Mountains. The rest of my thought in composing this image was to minimize any artifacts across the lens from the sun that was in the western skies, while attempting to bring out an alignment with the ridges and peaks and avoid any flattening from a wider angle focal length.
Male House Finches are generally red, but under certain certain circumstances they may be orange or yellow instead. Different subspecies may show color variations, but differences in color are also attributed to diet. When a bird is molting, its diet will determine the colors of its new feathers. If a diet lacks certain pigments, then a House Finch may end up orange or yellow instead of its usual red. (Source: Cornell Lab All About Birds)
Male House Finches are generally red, but under certain certain circumstances they may be orange or yellow instead. Different subspecies may show color variations, but differences in color are also attributed to diet. When a bird is molting, its diet will determine the colors of its new feathers. If a diet lacks certain pigments, then a House Finch may end up orange or yellow instead of its usual red. (Source: Cornell Lab All About Birds)
A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway Mountain Station and across a snowy landscape with a forest of evergreen trees. This is in Mount San Jacinto State Park.