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Death Valley National Park, Landscape Photography

Our Recent Death Valley Trip

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Dan and I went to Death Valley on December 20 and were there through the 24th. (We got out just in time: the rain that began on our drive home eventually caused a lot of road closures, and even leaving when we did — at about 6:30 AM — we encountered flooded roads, some spots where falling rocks caused Dan to have to carefully maneuver around them, and a road closure that added probably 45 minutes to our drive.)

We woke early on our first morning and Dan drove to Lake Manly. I’d never seen a lot of water so I was looking forward to going there. I don’t do much landscape (or waterscape) photography, but I did a bit just to say I did.

Morning at Lake Manly, 12.21.25

Floral Photography, Landscape Photography, Yosemite National Park

Looking Further Back

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I’m so easily distracted. I should be cleaning … but I was looking back at images from the Sierra Nevada … even as far back as 2003. Oh how young Dan and I look! I won’t post any of those here: I was using a camera that was less than stellar, and while it’s fun to look at younger me, it’s not fun to see the low quality images. (If you wonder, that first camera was some sort of Olympus and if it was more than 3 megapixels I’d be surprised.)

Moving forward, I finally progress to decent cameras. Not that that meant I would always get great images, but at least they wouldn’t be pixilated.

Rocks in the Clouds, 2.23.13Rocks_in_the_Clouds,_2.23.13.jpg

Ice, Nature, trees, Yosemite National Park

Yosemite

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Someone I know and love gets to go to Yosemite this weekend. Someone else does not, so she is making herself feel worse by looking over photos from trips in the past. But so it goes. The life of a musician includes a lot of weekends where other people go off on trips and the musician stays home to work. It’s just the way the job works!

Tunnel View Ice (II), 12.31.15Tunnel_View_Ice_(II),_12.31.15.jpg

 

Winter Trees (II), Yosemite, 12.31.15Winter_Trees_(II),_Yosemite,_12.31.15.jpg