Vertical photograph of light snow on desert mountainside. The mountain face appears quite steep, with sparse pinon pines higher up, hints of craggy outcrops in the middle, and erosional patterns low. The snow thins and stops along a horizontal band 2/3 of the way down. Below snowline, the slopes appear dark brown and barren. The scene is lit by just a touch of pale yellow directional sunlight, which emphasizes the folded gullies of the mountainside.

Snowline
#landscapephotography #greatbasin #californiadesert #desertwinter #deepsprings

Landscape photo of a large desert mountain range at sunrise. Warm sunrise light outline a graceful foreground ridgeline at bottom. Moving up, another more rugged ridge is well lit and glowing orange across a steep canyon. Beyond, a series of ridges recedes, their lower slopes in sunlight, their heights in blue shadow, with a little snow at top. At left is a glimpse of a barren valley floor. No trees or vegetation are really visible anywhere, though experienced desert eyes will rightly guess that the darker shades on the higher mountains are pinon pine woods. The sky is pastel blue and yellow with a couple hazy clouds.

Again, apropos of nothing
#landscapephotography #greatbasin #californiadesert #inyo

Landscape photograph of a small desert stream reaching the end of its flow. The setting is a wide valley of barren desert, with only a few shrubs growing, a dark mountain range in the background under mostly cloudy morning sky. The foreground is a sandy wash with crinkly dry silt patterns. The pale blue stream flows into this wash, braiding out into branching fingers as the flow ends just in front of the camera.

When #flowing reaches its end...
#BlueSkyArtShow #desertwater #californiadesert #landscapephotography

Vertical photo of an unusual stack of weathered granite boulders under blue sky. The principal boulders are quite tall and the tallest is standing vertically like a menhir and forming a small window with its neighbor.

Always meant to come back and shoot this one in more interesting conditions, but it hasn't happened yet.
#RockinTuesday #landscapephotography #granite #californiadesert

Drifting.
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#fujifilm #fujifilmxh2s #deathvalley #travel #nature #landscapephotography #desert #californiadesert

Same shot, different angle.
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#deathvalley #rhyolite #ghosttown #desert #california #californiadesert #fujifilm #fujifilmxh2s #minecraft #sculpture

Share a photograph of mountains that you’ve taken. (If you insist!)
#landscapephotography #californiadesert #deepsprings #sierranevada #fog

The Last Supper
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#artsculpture #statue #travel #deathvalley #californiadesert #fujifilm #fujifilmxh2s

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Photograph of layers of desert mountain and hills in dappled light and shadow. The mountains rise from a barren valley in three layers: low shaded hills, then a rugged middle ridge displaying banded limestone geology, then a higher ridge dominated by two massive-looking peaks.

Happy International Mountain Day! Desert mountains are awesome mountains too!
#greatbasin #californiadesert #geology #desertmountains #internationalmountainday

Speaking of these desert endemics, gonna share my gallery of Bufo exsul and its habitat:
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#endemicspecies #amphibian #toad #desertwildlife #californiadesert

A favorite, if you're interested in desert endemic.
#Californiadesert #greatbasin #fish #amphibian #toad

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Photograph of very small toad on a blade of grass above pond algae. The toad is mottled black a dull green with a prominent pale dorsal stripe. The bulges and bubbles in the algae emphasize the smallness of the scene, as do the three blades of green grass crossing the scene at angles.

Something small, Bufo exsul, a tiny toad that lives only at a set of springs surrounded by vast stretches of California desert, isolated from other amphibians, adrift in its own watery cosmos.

#BlueSkyArtShow #small #toad #amphibian #californiadesert #desertwildlife

Landscape photograph of a whitewater rapid in a forested river canyon. Snow patches are mingles with the jade green of the wooded riversides, while the foreground is dominated by large boulders at the edge of the rapid. A chilly looking cloudy sky is slightly visible downstream.

Photograph of an abandoned mining structure high above a desert valley. The mining structure is mostly shadowed timbers with a metal wheel up top. A cliff outcrop with layered striations tilted up to vertical can be seen nearby, while farther away and far below is a barren valley floor leading to geologically complex mountains at the top of the image.

Vertical photograph of an autumn tree in a high desert canyon. The canyon has distinctly striped walls of soft-looking sedimentary rock, and appears to feed into a larger canyon at top right. A small tree with golden leaves dominates the canyon bottom. A ponderosa pine is growing on the slopes, while a number of other deciduous trees appear bare or mostly bare of leaves.

November retrospective, 5, 10 and 15 years ago (apparently I made literally not one photo in Nov '24, so we're skipping one year ago): Selway River, ID; Eureka Valley, CA; Bandelier Nat Monument, NM
#landscapephotography #idaho #newmexico #californiadesert

Photograph of bare winter elm trees under luminous fog. The elm branches are whitened with hoarfrost and seem to glow in the light breaking through. Behind them are steep, rugged mountain slopes, almost entirely snow-covered. At the base of the trees can be glimpsed irrigation wheel lines with low ranch buildings behind. The bottom of the scene is a bright flat snowy field, and the top melts into luminous foggy cloud.

Lifting storm, bright fog
#BlueSkyArtShow #bright #landscapephotography #californiadesert #greatbasin #deepsprings #pogonip

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Photograph of sunrise on the crest of a mountain range. A yellow autumn shrub is in the foreground, beyond which bare slopes lead to a forested canyon in high desert summits. Across a distant deep valley is a line of large peaks capped with snow. The sky is clear blue and orange sunrise light is touching the higher summits, while most of the scene is shaded.

~10 years ago, on a high ridge east of the Sierra Nevada. 2/4
#greatbasin #californiadesert #inyocounty

The place with the highest elevation and the place with the lowest elevation in America are both in #California. Mt. Whitney and Death Valley are only 100 miles (161 km) apart.

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#MtWhitney, #DeathValley #CaliforniaDesert

Joshua Tree Black-tailed jackrabbit’s gaze dares me to follow--sprinting. Won't even try.

#luck #rabbit #bunny #joshuatreenationalpark #photography #desertphotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #californiadesert #naturephotography #hare #jackrabbit #joshuatree #wildlife #nature #desert

Photograph of a desert ranch road heading into the middle of a fog rainbow. Sparse yellow desert plants are seen amidst bare ground on either side of the small, rather dilapidated road. The fog bow forms a complete arch with subtle color and a golden cast to it and its surrounding mist. There is blue sky overhead. All other details are shrouded by the mist.

Destination anywhere...

#TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow #fog #rainbow #californiadesert

Suz / Salton Sea 🌙

#canon5d #saltonsea #bombaybeach #bluehour #bluehourphotography #californiadesert #mojave

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Photograph of a long-nosed leopard lizard among desert shrubs. The lizard has a reticulated patterns of dark gray and orange patches against a creamy background, with a long striped tail. It is surrounded by dry sticks below with green plants above, and is somewhat spotlit by warm, low-angle sunlight.

Long-nosed leopard lizard: splendid creatures!
#lizard #herp #reptile #desertwildlife #californiadesert #greatbasin

Naked in the wildflowers, standing still with nothing to hide, surrounded by nature.

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

#naturism #naturist #nudism #nudist #malenude #nakedoutside #jtnp #californiadesert #bodyfreedom

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Photograph of blooming globemallow next to indigo bush. The globemallow, on left, is showing two blooms of bright orange, while at right the indigo bush has many magenta and white blooms mingled with jade green stems. The slice of focus is narrow, and out of focus patches of purple and orange can be seen in the background.

Desert ephemera of seasons past
#photography #wildflower #desertflowers #californiadesert #greatbasin

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Vertically oriented landscape photograph of rock strata with visible geologic folding. The rocks are primarily colored orangy-brown with prominent layers of dark gray and pale tan as well. They form a set of hills and steep slopes flaking a desert wash with only very sparse high-desert vegetation. A flat valley floor is seeing beyond. Most of the scene is shadowed by clouds, but some sunlight is spotlighting one hill and the valley floor.

Folded Cambrian strata, California desert
#RockinTuesday #geology #landscapephotography #californiadesert #cambrian #greatbasin

View from crest of a desert mountain range in morning light. Foreground has small shrubs on stony gray ground lit by low-angle sun. Beyond is a deep shadowed canyon, then rugged ridges receding to a distance filled with barren desert valleys and lower mountain ranges under a hazy blue sky.

Something old from California
#landscapephotography #californiadesert #deathvalley #greatbasin