Oops, I forgot the link the photos from Beatty Nevada: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639419490396/
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 12:17:41AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > I just spent slightly less than a week on the road. I took my usual > metric shitload of photos, a lot of which were just happy snaps and > many were for stitching into panoramas if/when I have a chance. > > I did get a few that didn't suck too badly. > > I drove down to LA on Sunday by way of Big Sur, the weather was beautiful, and > the roads were clogged with tourists. In the future, I think that I'll do > my best to avoid Big Sur on weekends. I managed to spend a few hours at > Limekiln, which was one of my favorite places to go as a kid. > > Big Sur: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424720424/ > > We spent our first night in the desert in Mojave. That evening we tried to > find the site of Nowak's opal mine, were we used to hunt for fire opal > when I was a kid. We spent some time driving dirt roads in Lorry, my > Dodge van. I had fun, Candace didn't really enjoy the off road experience. > > I tried to use my astrotracer and the tamron 300/2.8 to get some photos > of Andromeda but failed miserably. I did play a bit with my Korean fisheye > though. > > The next morning we had brunch at the Voyager Cafe at the Mojave spaceport. > That evening we drove as far a Lone Pine, which turned out to be far more > scenic than we expected and we ended up spending an extra day there. > > Desert: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424755274/ > > The following day we drove out Death Valley, getting in a little shooting > before sunset. I had fun trying to catch the new moon setting. Didn't > quite get the shot I wanted, but it was still fun. We spent the night in > Beatty Nevada, about 45 minutes out of the park, and surprisingly > picturesque. That night we did some night photography in the ghost town > of Rhyolite. I played a bit with my astrotracer. > > Most of Friday was spent at Zabriskie Point, which is ridiculously scenic. > We got there in the mid afternoon. I think that for a lot of the photos, > the lighting would be best in the morning. The walk down to the valley > floor is much easier than it looks, and well worth it, especially in the > canyons to the left of the lookout, looking towards the desert. It's > very easy to get beautiful shots of the gorgeous rock formations, but > a bit more challenging to get shots that aren't monontonously beautiful, > all looking pretty much alike. > > I did manage to get a little bit lost on my way back out of the > canyon, and climbing out of canyons, in the dark (albeit with headlamp), > up steep dirt cliffs, when overweight and out of shape was a special > kind of fun. > > Death Valley: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424829284/ > > Candice has posted a couple of sets from her trip: > Mojave: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639413836205/ > Red Rock Canyon: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639412196866/ > > If I have some spare time, I may go back and process and post some more > photos from the trip. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
