One think I love and look for in the desert landscape is examples of simple forms. The lack of vegetation presents the landscape unadorned, and the shapes of the rugged features can almost acquire an abstract quality. Here the mirrored forms of the Black Mountains form a wedge shape that cuts into the blue landscape of sky and its reflection.
Water in Lake Manly presents even more possibilities along these lines. In more normal conditions this photograph would be impossible. Instead of a reflection of the sky, making the frame mostly full of that sky, the lower third would be a very different salt flat — interesting, for sure, but entirely different than the water-reflected mirror image of the mountains and sky.
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