Stovepipe Dunes and Funeral Mountains

Stovepipe Dunes and Funeral Mountains

Stovepipe Dunes and Funeral Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. April 4, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Morning on the Stovepipe Dunes with the Funeral Range in the distance. Death Valley National Park.

This is probably a more “typical” Death Valley Dunes (a.k.a. “Stovepipe Dunes”) photograph, though I got here by a slightly different route than others might follow. The dunes are easily visible from the roadway east of Stovepipe Wells. Many people drive to a spot next to the dunes and start walking straight towards the highest point. Having “been there, done that” before, I now know that this is a long slog through deep sand – so this time I started my walk much closer to Stovepipe Wells and went around the west end of the dunes to get to the back side of the formation. I entered the dunes from the north to get this shot, and I have to say that access was a lot easier this way.

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Stovepipe Dunes and Funeral Mountains

Stovepipe Dunes and Funeral Mountains

Stovepipe Dunes and Funeral Mountains. Death Valley National Park, California. April 4, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Black and white photograph of the Stovepipe sand dunes in morning light with the Funeral Mountains in the distance. Death Valley National Park.

This is another of the “long lens landscapes” that I’ve been experimenting with recently – this one having been shot with a 400mm lens.

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Next in the Queue

Since I post a new photograph daily, some foresight and planning is required to keep the “tap turned on” at this site. Obviously, I have to do a lot of photography, both in the field and at the computer during the post-processing stage. In helps that I can queue up photographs ahead of time. During certain times of the year when I can’t get out as often I may may be posting as little as one week before the photographs appear. At other times I have a much larger line-up of photographs ready to go and “pre-posted” to appear later.

Right now is one those times when there are quite a few photographs in the queue – more than a month’s worth actually. Reasons include the fact that spring is an exceptionally photogenic time in my area, the fact that I’ve made several recent photographic trips, and the nature of the images that I’ve been doing recently.

This week the photographs from my early March visit to Death Valley came up in the queue, and there are quite a few others in that series coming up next. There is also a large series of spring wildflowers and related subjects that is in line after the DV photographs. This past weekend I spent a day photographing in Yosemite Valley – and those photos will come to the site in early June. (If you just can’t wait, many of the upcoming photos are already posted in my Gallery and in my Flickr stream.)


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” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.

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Death Valley from Aguereberry Point

Death Valley from Aguereberry Point

Death Valley from Aguereberry Point. Death Valley National Park, California. April 3, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Black and white photograph of the early evening view of Death Valley from Aguereberry Point as the shadow of the Panamint Range begins to extend across the Valley.

Aguereberry Point provides an astonishing viewpoint over Death Valley and a 360 degree panorama that extends to the southern Sierra Nevada range.

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