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Tim May | profile | all galleries >> California's Diversity:: a collection of galleries >> GALLERY:: Color, Light and Geology - A Trip to Death Valley - April 2006 tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

GALLERY ::Return to the Eastern Sierras - California :: October - 2015 | GALLERY ::Close to Home - Marin County, California :: August - 2015 | GALLERY :: California's Northern Coast in Winter :: December - 2015 | GALLERY - A Weekend in Mission Beach, San Diego :: September - 2010 | GALLERY:: Tule Lake, California - September, 2008 | GALLERY:: Around Mount Shasta California - September, 2008 | GALLERY:: Pondosa, California - Lost in the Wilderness:: September, 2008 | GALLERY:: Burney Falls, California:: September, 2008 | GALLERY:: A Glimpse of Lassen, Mount Lassen National Park, California - September 2008 | GALLERY:: Seen in Greenville - Greenville, California - September 2008 | GALLERY:: A Visit to Lake Tahoe - May 2008 | GALLERIES:: California's Mother Lode - May, 2008 | GALLERY:: Death Valley Vision:: April 2008 | Gallery:: Return to the Alabama Hills:: April 2008 | Gallery:: Steinbeck Country:: March 2008 | GALLERY ::Sonoma, Napa, Marin, California, 2007 | GALLERY :: San Francisco's Chinatown, June 2007 | GALLERY :: A Week in the San Francisco Bay Area, June 2007 | GALLERY :: Manzanar Pilgrimage: An American Event, April 2007 | GALLERY:: Bakersfield, California, February, 2007 | GALLERY :: Revisiting Manzanar, February, 2007 | GALLERY :: Late Light, Early Light Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, February, 2007 | GALLERY :: Death Valley Mining Towns, February, 2007 | GALLERY:: Death Valley Vision:: February 2007 | GALLERY :: East of Death Valley, February, 2007 | GALLERY :: Manzanar Relocation Camp - A Place to Remember:: Manzanar, California, October 2006 | GALLERY :: Mono Lake: Fantasy Landscape::California, 2006 | GALLERY :: Morning Light in Bodie:: Bodie State Park, California, 2006 | GALLERY :: Benton Hot Springs ::October 2006 :: | GALLERY California's Eastern Sierra Region -October 2006 | GALLERY:: Color, Light and Geology - A Trip to Death Valley - April 2006 | GALLERY:: On the Backroads of the Coastal Range - From San Luis Obispo to Taft- ::April 2006 | GALLERY:: Route 66 - The Edges of Memory ::2006 | GALLERY:: -Backroad Home- ::September 2005 | GALLERY:: On the Backroads of the Coastal Range ::2005 | GALLERY:: Details & Desolation - Bodie California ::2004 | GALLERY:: Eastern Sierra Transitions ::Fall 2004 | GALLERY:: Photographing in San Diego ::2003 | GALLERY:: Code 10-23: "Arrived at Scene": San Francisco ::2003 | GALLERY COLLECTION:: Manzanar - Let Us Remember

GALLERY:: Color, Light and Geology - A Trip to Death Valley - April 2006

As a 14 year old in 1959, moving to California from New Jersey, my father had the bright idea of taking a '"short cut" through Death Valley and over Tioga Pass. My memory is of traveling through Hell in an un-aircontioned car in June. I had not been back to Death Valley for almost 50 year, but I finally overcame my previous experience and visited this amazing area. I had lots of recommendations from other photographers as to what I should see during my short stay and am greatly appreciative of their advice. I was pleased with what I discovered and will go back for more. It rained while I was there which made this trip fairly unique.
One surprise for me was the ubiquitous presence of other photographers - several times I was on hilltops and there were other photographers dotting the hills around me. I have one instance of that in my dune picture.

Tecopa Sunset
Tecopa Sunset
Museum at Night - Shoshone, California
Museum at Night - Shoshone, California
Art Center - Shoshone, California
Art Center - Shoshone, California
Unused Motel - Shoshone, California
Unused Motel - Shoshone, California
Along Highway 190 - Death Valley, California
Along Highway 190 - Death Valley, California
Along 20 Mule Team Road - Death Valley, California
Along 20 Mule Team Road - Death Valley, California
Light Play - 20 Mule Team Road - Death Valley, California
Light Play - 20 Mule Team Road - Death Valley, California
Zabriskie Point Looking East - Death Valley, California
Zabriskie Point Looking East - Death Valley, California
Find the Cars - Zabriskie Point - Death Valley, California
Find the Cars - Zabriskie Point - Death Valley, California
Approaching Storm - Death Valley, California
Approaching Storm - Death Valley, California
Bad Water View - Death Valley, California
Bad Water View - Death Valley, California
Spring in the Valley - Death Valley, California
Spring in the Valley - Death Valley, California
Death Valley Gold - Death Valley, California
Death Valley Gold - Death Valley, California
Deset Color - Death Valley, California
Deset Color - Death Valley, California
Strangers at a Dance - Death Valley, California
Strangers at a Dance - Death Valley, California
Desert Blooms - Death Valley, California
Desert Blooms - Death Valley, California
Storm's Arrival - Death Valley, California
Storm's Arrival - Death Valley, California
Impending  - Badwater Saltflats - Death Valley, California
Impending - Badwater Saltflats - Death Valley, California
Artist's Pallet -Death Valley, California
Artist's Pallet -Death Valley, California
Preparing... - Death Valley, California
Preparing... - Death Valley, California
...to Land  - Death Valley, California
...to Land - Death Valley, California
Pardner  - Furnace Creek Ranch - Death Valley, California
Pardner - Furnace Creek Ranch - Death Valley, California
Hiker  - Zabriskie Point - Death Valley, California
Hiker - Zabriskie Point - Death Valley, California
Hikers - Zabriskie Point - Death Valley, California
Hikers - Zabriskie Point - Death Valley, California
Zabriskie Dawn - Death Valley, California
Zabriskie Dawn - Death Valley, California
Catch the Light - Death Valley, California
Catch the Light - Death Valley, California
Morning Glow - Death Valley, California
Morning Glow - Death Valley, California
Broadview  - Death Valley, California
Broadview - Death Valley, California
Sensuous   - Death Valley, California
Sensuous - Death Valley, California
20 Mule Team Surprise - Death Valley, California
20 Mule Team Surprise - Death Valley, California
Desert Holly   - Death Valley, California
Desert Holly - Death Valley, California
Morning Contrasts  - Death Valley, California
Morning Contrasts - Death Valley, California
Pup Fish - Salt Creek - Death Valley, California
Pup Fish - Salt Creek - Death Valley, California
Pup Fish Copulation - Salt Creek - Death Valley, California
Pup Fish Copulation - Salt Creek - Death Valley, California
Time for a Cigarette - Salt Creek - Death Valley, California
Time for a Cigarette - Salt Creek - Death Valley, California
Rain's Surprise - Death Valley, California
Rain's Surprise - Death Valley, California
Morning Storm at Stovepipe Wells -Death Valley, California
Morning Storm at Stovepipe Wells -Death Valley, California
Such Green!    - Death Valley, California
Such Green! - Death Valley, California
Photographer Dotted Dunes -Death Valley, California
Photographer Dotted Dunes -Death Valley, California
Burro   - Panamint Valley, California
Burro - Panamint Valley, California