Detail, Zabriskie Point Formations. Death Valley National Park, California. March 29, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Detail photograph of patterns of barren hills and gullies at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California.
From my series of detail photographs of smaller elements of the landscape at Zabriskie, and another one shot during atypical times of day – in this case in very bright afternoon sunshine. Because of these lighting conditions – color, intensity, and angle, the quality of the image is less “dreamy” than the typical early morning soft-light photographs of this area. Here you see more clearly the rough texture of the material making up the folds and gullies of these interesting hills that drop into Gower Gulch.
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Technical Data:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM at 330mm
ISO 100, f/16, 1/50 second
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Thanks, Rajan! I’m hoping to print this and some of the other DEVA images before long – and a few will likely end up quite large.
Dan
It also has a 3-D quality to it. I suspect images like these would shine in large prints.