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Does he have an presence on Bluesky?

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Is this your photograph or a photograph by Edd Allen? (I was going to share it, but I want to get the attribution right.)

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… the day. On the way back down we came across this place where the dark canyon opened in the bright valley.

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…Elsewhere in California on this early winter day the skies were cloudy and rain was in the air. But in Death Valley the skies were (partly) blue and the temperatures were comfortable. We had a little extra time between stops so we headed up to this popular little canyon late in…

Fascinating observation about this photograph: The unaltered contact print of Ansel Adams' famous "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" looks so much like this that I momentarily thought that is what I was looking at.

Shhhh... ;-)

Also, that location is certainly not for most people. It is pretty far out of the way, then down a gravel road, onto a worse gravel road, across a creek (which is probably flowing right now), then a one mile hike across flats to get there. And the times of good light are limited.

In fact, that is one of the secrets. Also, be very early and head to the less busy portions of the dunes. (I shoot in Death Valley a lot, and even on days when the main dunes are heavily tracked I can find clean dunes away from the crowds.)

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… ledges. Here a small tree adds a contrasting bit of green to the sandstone cliff.

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… American Southwest are impressive. But seeing that plants manage to live on these formations is equally so. The variety of ways they eke out a living is surprising — at the bottom of huge holes in the rock, in tiny cracks, along…