Potash Road, Utah
Eroded rocks along the bank of the Colorado River in the late afternoon. The glow of the nearby sandstone cliffs are reflected in the river's waters.
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Aguereberry Point, Death Valley, California
Death Valley is part of the Basin and Range region of North America extending from eastern California through Nevada to western Utah and characterized by north to south running mountain ranges separated by basins. The earth's crust in that region was stretched, thinned, and uplifted after the North American tectonic plate rode over the now extinct Farallon tectonic plate. The result was huge cracks (aka faults) where massive blocks of the crust tilted up into mountain ranges, leaving basins in the intervening low spots.
Here at Aguereberry Point we are on top of one such huge block (the Panamint Mountains) and the sedimentary layers are so very clearly tilted from their original horizontal bedding. Even the outcropping in the foreground shows the tilt. In the distance is Badwater Basin on the floor of Death Valley with the Black Mountains further on.
[Reprocessed November 27, 2019]
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Mount Tamalpais, California
We are standing on the slopes of Mt Tam, watching the wispy clouds over the ocean catch the setting sun's last light.
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Yosemite, California
Looking north along Tioga Road in Yosemite's Dana Meadows area during sunset. Earlier in the day thunderclouds had moved in from the east, made menacing noises, then slowly dissipated. I had been photographing a scene in the opposite direction, the south, when my light started fading.
I turned around to a stunning side-lit sunset. I was totally floored. I had never seen such vivid yellows and oranges. It looked like a fireball. Eventually I recovered my senses and found a few compositions. Here the colors had tamed down to a glowing rosy red.
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Yosemite, California
A morning mist dances over the surface of a vernal pond in Cook’s Meadow.
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