Telescope Peak in #DeathValley for #MountainMonday!
This was down at Badwater Basin - not too often you can get a sweet #reflection!

The 2026 Death Valley superbloom—the first of its magnitude since 2016—triggered a massive emergence of White-Lined Sphinx Moth caterpillars. A key part of the desert's "boom and bust" cycle, these caterpillars appear in huge numbers to capitalize on the sudden abundance of food.

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Step back to 1907 at Death Valley’s Lost Burro Mine. Legend says Bert Shively found gold when he threw a rock at his runaway burro! Tucked in the Cottonwood Mountains, it’s remarkably preserved; the mill and cabin look like they were abandoned just yesterday.

#deathvalley #mininghistory #adventure

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“Crater Wall Detail” — Eroded strata in a Death Valley crater.

We re-visited this location…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/30/c...

#deathvalley #photo #photography #photographer #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 80°F
OBS: 80°F (2mph wind, 21% RH)
Mostly Clear

⏱ Next 6h: 69–78° • precip 0% • wind up to 2mph

📅 3-Day:
Monday: 97° - Mostly Sunny
Tuesday: 92° - Mostly Cloudy then Slight C…
Wednesday: 89° - Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

A black-and-white poster titled “Life & Death Valley.” A landscape scene of rolling sand dunes out to the distance mountain range. Desert vegetation dotting the landscape in between.

A visceral moment envisioning the world
#LandscapePhotography #DeathValley #Desert

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I was pleased to find a clean air exhibit at the Dante's View overlook in Death Valley NP. Unfortunately, the view at the time as hazy and didn't live up to the view shown on the exhibit. However, relieved to find that some "science" has survived the current NPS purge. #cleanair #deathvalley #nps

A radiant sunset starburst reflects off Lake Manly just moments before the sun dips behind the Panamint Range in Death Valley National Park.
#deathvalley #lakemanly #sunset #starburst #reflection #landscape #desert #mountains #nature #photography

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 90°F
OBS: 90°F (1mph wind, 17% RH)
Mostly Sunny

⏱ Next 6h: 91–99° • precip 0% • wind up to 8mph

📅 3-Day:
Monday: 97° - Partly Sunny
Tuesday: 91° - Mostly Cloudy
Wednesday: 90° - Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 83°F
OBS: 83°F (2mph wind, 18% RH)
Partly Cloudy

⏱ Next 6h: 70–79° • precip 0% • wind up to 2mph

📅 3-Day:
Sunday: 99° - Mostly Sunny
Monday: 96° - Partly Sunny
Tuesday: 91° - Mostly Cloudy
#DeathValley #cawx

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 92°F
OBS: 92°F (20mph wind, 13% RH)
Sunny

⏱ Next 6h: 91–99° • precip 0% • wind up to 8mph

📅 3-Day:
Sunday: 99° - Mostly Sunny
Monday: 96° - Partly Sunny
Tuesday: 93° - Mostly Cloudy
#DeathValley #cawx

Brown-eyed evening primrose, Death Valley.

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“Brown-Eyed Evening Primrose” — Brown-eyed evening primrose plant on mud flats.

Our February visit to Death Valley…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/28/b...

#deathvalley #desert #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature

In the desert sands they parted ways or perhaps they were never truly together? Apart. #DeathValley #Landscape #black&white #classicmono #desert #hiking #travelphotography #contrast #nationalpark

Desert Snow

Another from Death Valley - crystals of salt growing out of the desert sands in the extreme dryness and heat.

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#DeathValley, #USA
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#desert #crystals #salt #twilight #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Scape

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 88°F
OBS: 88°F (17mph wind, 12% RH)
Partly Cloudy

⏱ Next 6h: 71–80° • precip 0% • wind up to 2mph

📅 3-Day:
Saturday: 100° - Mostly Sunny
Sunday: 100° - Mostly Sunny
Monday: 96° - Partly Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 93°F
OBS: 93°F (34mph wind, 9% RH)
Sunny

⏱ Next 6h: 94–101° • precip 0% • wind up to 6mph

📅 3-Day:
Saturday: 100° - Mostly Sunny
Sunday: 100° - Mostly Sunny
Monday: 96° - Partly Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

Skidoo, Death Valley

Skidoo, Death Valley-Looking into Furnace Creek
Nikon D800E, 70mm, 1/250 sec, f11, ISO 100
BW conversion

#DeathValley #Landscape #BlackWhite

There is something extraordinary about the 'sailing stones' of Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa. They move at a snail’s pace, leaving behind perfect, silent records of their journey across the parched earth.

#deathvalley #sailingstones #landscape #nature #photography

Vista of... Deaaaattthhhhh!

...valley, that is.

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#DeathValley, #USA
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Death #Scape #Valley #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Photgraphy #BucketList #Travel #Roadtrip #Art

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 89°F
OBS: 89°F (17mph wind, 11% RH)
Mostly Clear

⏱ Next 6h: 70–79° • precip 0% • wind up to 8mph

📅 3-Day:
Friday: 101° - Mostly Sunny
Saturday: 100° - Mostly Sunny
Sunday: 101° - Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

This image captures a serene, expansive salt flat under a vast, clear blue sky with wispy clouds. In the foreground, textured white and brownish salt crusts meet a calm, shallow reflective lake that mirrors the distant mountain range. Small groups of people are scattered across the midground, walking along the water’s edge and emphasizing the immense scale of the landscape. This photo was taken at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, the lowest point in North America at 282 feet below sea level. The shallow water visible here is Lake Manly, a temporary lake that occasionally forms after heavy rainfall or atmospheric river events. This rare phenomenon transforms the normally vast, dry salt flat into a reflective body of water that can fill for weeks or months before evaporating in the intense desert heat. In recent decades, notable appearances have occurred after major storms in 2005, 2023 (following Hurricane Hilary), and again in late 2025 into early 2026. These modern versions are usually very shallow—often just inches to a foot deep—creating striking reflections before the desert heat dries them out.

Badwater Basin- Lake Manly Death Valley, CA

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More info on Lake Manly next week… 🤎

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#Landscape #DeathValley
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The silence here is profound. Standing on the Racetrack Playa, you find a quiet so deep it’s deafening. You search for sound, but it’s just you and the tracks of stones that move only when no one is watching. A spiritual pilgrimage to the backcountry of Death Valley.

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Death Valley, CA

NOW: 88°F
OBS: 88°F (15mph wind, 18% RH)
Mostly Sunny

⏱ Next 6h: 94–102° • precip 0% • wind up to 5mph

📅 3-Day:
Friday: 101° - Mostly Sunny
Saturday: 100° - Mostly Sunny
Sunday: 102° - Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

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“Sand Patterns” — Patterns in sand dunes, Death Valley National Park.

…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/26/s...

#deathvalley #sand #dunes #photo #photography #photographer #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 90°F
OBS: 90°F (18mph wind, 16% RH)
Mostly Clear

⏱ Next 6h: 71–81° • precip 0% • wind up to 3mph

📅 3-Day:
Thursday: 101° - Sunny
Friday: 101° - Mostly Sunny
Saturday: 100° - Mostly Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand."
– George Eliot

Still making my way up US-395, and enjoying every minute of it!

#eurekadunes #deathvalley #dunes #bayareaphotographer #photography #scape #landscape #sunset

The sunsetting behind a mountain range in the distance. The sky has streaky clouds that are orange near the mountains and more white towards the top of the frame. The sun is at the left top thirds of the frame and the mountain tops break roughly follow the top third across the frame. Below the mountains at about middle of the frame is the lake surface in shadow, dozens of people are walking towards the lake or at its edge. There is a wide trail leading from the lake towards the left lower corner which people are walking on. To the right of the trail is a pond of dispersed water that is reflecting the light from the sunset so it has a golden yellow hue. In the foreground on the left bottom corner is a viewing platform that is the walkway down to the trail. The curved to the left banister is made of cylindrical metal tubes and it dark colored and the top curve is reflecting the sunlight and looks bronze.

I keep meaning to post more photography as a reprieve from the :gestures to the world:
Here is the view of Lake Manly from the parking lot barrier. The water in the front is always there from my knowledge. The water people are walking to is infrequent
More photos at ScottWGonzalez.com
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Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley 🌋

2,100 years ago, a steam explosion created this 600ft-deep "maar." To the Timbisha Shoshone, it is Tempinna Ah-ka-voo-it (Coyote’s Basket)—a sacred ancestral site and the place where their people first emerged into the world.

#deathvalley #landscape #photography

Death Valley, CA

NOW: 94°F
OBS: 94°F (6mph wind, 18% RH)
Sunny

⏱ Next 6h: 95–103° • precip 0% • wind up to 10mph

📅 3-Day:
Thursday: 102° - Sunny
Friday: 101° - Mostly Sunny
Saturday: 101° - Mostly Sunny
#DeathValley #cawx

Photographer Drives 1,000 Miles to Death Valley for Spectacular Superbloom Worth it.

Just, wow. #superbloom #DeathValley #pretty #flowers #landscape

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