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A salt pond and surrounding playa terrain near Lake Manly.

Lake Manly is not the body of water on the Death Valley playa in this unusual year. While the lake occupies the lowest area near Badwater, there is a lot of water in other locations up and down the valley. I photographed this pond from high in the Black Mountains, at Dante’s View. I was there before dawn, but I made this photograph much later when the early shadows had retreated back across the valley and everything was in sunshine.

The water and the bright morning light reveal a lot of details on the playa. Not only do we see the pond, but we can see the submerged salt formations around its edge. There are channels and waterways everywhere on the playa, in comes cases separated by slightly higher bits of land where sandstorm dust has collected. At the very lower edge in this photograph we see fans spilling down from the base of the mountains and sending gravel toward the playa’s edge.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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The melt has begun at Keefer Lake and Spring has sprung. This often means ice fog around sunset and/or sunrise. Here's a sunset take ... minutes later it was thick as the proverbial 'pea soup.' Well, that might be an exaggeration but the island was getting difficult to see. :)

- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -

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