15 Paintings from a visit to Arches National Park, Utah.
Desert
Outside Page, AZ is an unlikely place… you walk a mile from the road and suddenly there is the Colorado River making a gigantic hole in the ground… I got a photo and two different style paintings.
Sand Dunes, Sheep, and the Snake river.
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- He’s been in some tough fights…. for his sheep.
Harsh in the hot desert daytime… After dark it comes alive.
The nicest place to kill yourself I have ever seen… rock climbers… it’s not a matter of if… it’s when…
Worth the drive… it’s a long way… to the middle of a desert…
Hopalong, Tonto, Roy and Trigger, Iron Man, Gene Autry, and hundreds others rode the old west in them thar hills…. Now you just drive along “movie road” and squint a bit to relive the good guys in the white hats days….
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- Lone Pine Peak
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- Mobius Arch
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- Mt. Whitney
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- Illegal Art… allowed to stay for some reason…
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- Mt Whitney through Mobius Arch
After some record rainfall over the winter I though I should get down there to see the flowers and other famous items. Good news… lots of flowers in vast gravel pits to the south of Furnace Creek. Bad news… racetrack rock trails erased for the most part… plus some assholes are stealing the rocks that have been there for hundreds of years making the trails. I need to revisit my 1998 trip with my new film scanner to pick up some more photos I have not been able to post since they are on 4×5 and 21/4 film plus a few 35mm kodachromes. Enjoy. This is a giant place and I don’t think 10 more trips would cover it. Maybe again in late September?
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Eureka Valley Road. It is a good dirt road. I hit 70mph on it (not recommended).
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Eureka Valley road looking south from Crankshaft Junction… yes there is a real crankshaft in the road marking the spot.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Racetrack
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- There are 2 kinds of Tumbleweed… dead and dying.
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- As I was leaving this is Panamint Valley. Sandstorm 50 mph winds, rain, rainbow! All in one.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Running Man
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Near Racetrack
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- North entrance Zebra rock.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Racetrack Valley
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- 1916 Baldwin
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- From Ubehebee Crater after dark.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Racetrack Valley
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- From Ubehebee Crater after dark.
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- Looking North toward Stovepipe. Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Sunrise Mequite Sand dunes.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mormon Point Flowers
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Racetrack
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- Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1890’s exhibits of Death Valley equipment.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Along Racetrack road.
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- Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- From Ubehebee Crater after dark.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- 1916 Baldwin
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Looking North toward Stovepipe. Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Bad Water Basin -85.5 meters below Sea Level.
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- Zabriskie Point
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Artists Drive, colors, washouts, flowers.
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
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- Grandstand at the Racetrack
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- Mesquite sand dune dust storm.
From my 3000 plus photos… here are a couple highlights… Bottom line: You have to be out there before the sun comes up and after the sun goes down… and you have to be freezing to get good photos. When all the cell phone photographers leave for dinner then you get serious…
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- from about 4.25 miles away
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- ShipRock from 2 miles
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- Mr. Bill meets ShipRock from more than a mile away.
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- The original White House
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- Spider Rock
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- My personal Marlboro Man.
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- Monument Valley
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- Monument Valley
