About Color

This one was about color. I was shooting a wedding for friends, the second time I had engaged in that particular activity. The flower girl squatted down to check out a sprig of roses. I was struck by all the color in the scene and quickly captured a frame. I shot it for myself with no intention of including it in the wedding photo book I was going to create for the bride and groom. Later, when I was putting together the book, I still liked the photo so much that I included it along with the formal (posed) and informal photos.

Zabriskie Point

The photos below are from Zabriskie Point, in Death Valley, known for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments deposited in Furnace Creek Lake, which disappeared around five million years ago. 

Twin Towers

The twin water towers shown in the photo below are in Death Valley Junction, California. I don't remember seeing twin water towers anywhere else, but that may be the result of a memory failure. It struck me as odd when I saw them on a two-day motorcycle ride that Mike Harmon and I took through Death Valley National Park in March, 2011. The towers were part of what appeared to be an abandoned mining operation.
It certainly made sense that additional water storage was needed in the area, since it frequently records temperatures in excess of 120 F during the summer, and holds the record for high temperature for the Americas at 134 F, recorded in Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913