Dunes and Mountains, Evening. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Soft evening light on Death Valley sand dunes and desert mountains.
This is (yet another) end-of-the-day photographs from Death Valley National Park, made during the soft light time after the sun had dropped behind the Cottonwood Mountains behind me to the west. As wild as the sunset light is, I think I’ve come to love the softer and more subtle quality of this time of the day.
The photograph looks east across low dunes that stretch across a wide section of the valley here, in a place where nearby mountains disrupt the wind patterns and cause the winds to drop their load of sand. Beyond the dunes lie arid desert mountains, with strata and erosion laid bare.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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Thanks for your comment on the photograph!
I’m still not sure what happened to that “like” button. I suspect that it may be connected to a rather major update that wordpress did to the software used to host the site. I think that some of the old features simply disappeared when that happened. (Many of the changes are probably invisible to site visitors, but “under the hood” they changed a ton of stuff!)
Dan
Such soft and pleasing colors!
There still no ‘like’ button…Just wanted to touch base and let you know I am enjoying the fact