On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 05:38:29PM -0500, Mark C wrote: > Looks like a fantastic trip - that's a great collection of photos!
Thanks. It was a lot of fun. I also learned a lot that will be handy for future trips. Zabriskie point is fun for hiking, and it's almost hard to get a photo there that isn't amazingly scenic, but it seems that the areas that are the most fun photographically surround death valley. > > Mark > > On 1/5/2014 3:17 AM, 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. > > > > > -- > 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.
