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
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Photograph of mostly eclipsed moon setting over desert landscape. The moon hangs in a deep blue cloudless sky, above a prominent colcanic neck forming a very steep sided butte on the horizon. The foreground is full of badland scenery with substantial snow, and is lit a gentle gold by the pre-dawn light behind the camera.

Good luck to anyone shooting the eclipse tonight. It'll be a bit too high in the sky in my local area, but people further east and maybe close to big mountains should have some possibilities. This one was in 2011 in New Mexico.
#landscapephotography #eclipse #newmexico #desertwinter

Late night soak by the light of the full moon. #Daddyland #DesertWinter

Here are a few photos from a unique morning in Eastern Oregon last week. I've been here so many times, but I've never seen anything like this!

The folded patterns are where the ice on top gets pushed by wind, and glides over the melted water underneath.

#desert #oregondesert #ice #desertwinter

Chill of winter in the desert #photography #utah #sandhollow #desertwinter

Winter sunlight strikes a snow-covered landscape of ridges, gullies and boulder outcrops, forming a patchwork of pale gold highlights and subtly blue shadows.

A snowy winter in the California desert

#landscapephotography #californiadesert #californiasnow #greatbasin #desertwinter

MT trying to keep warm squinching in the sun. #PigeonSky #DesertWinter

Pale gold and blue light plays subtly on a landscape of intermingled large and small lakes with only small shrubby vegetation. The landscape has a dusting of snow, and barren snowy mountains shine in sunrise light in the background.

An old favorite from eastern Oregon

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#birds
#saysphoebe
#desertwinter
#gloriousweather

Sunlight illuminates billowing fog banks in high desert valley, with fog between rocky ridges in foreground, snowy mountain slopes in background

The beauty of fog in the high desert... thanks @joshpatterson.photo for bringing it to mind!

#landscapephotography #californiadesert #greatbasin #fog #desertwinter