#amargosa range

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Mountain Beauty While Walking the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes (Death Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while walking and taking in views across dune ridges and flats at the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. With this image, I decided to focus on the contrast of shades and tones with the brighter colors present in the nearby sands, with that of the darker tones present on the ridges and peaks of Tucki Mountain and the Panamint Range.

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Zabriskie Point by Ashley Via Flickr: Death Valley National Park

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My Refuge Amongst the Mountains in Death Valley National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along Badwater Road with a view looking to the northeast. This location is in Death Valley National Park. The setting is the mountain desert landscape present along the basin area around Badwater.

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Sometimes You’re Sitting in a Parked Car and See Amazing Colors and Patterns on a Mountainside (Death Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at the Death Valley Pay Station with a view looking to the southwest to a mountainside of the Amargosa Range. This is in Death Valley National Park. What I was attempting to do in capturing this image was finding a balance between the colors with the patterns and shapes on this mountainside and that of the skies above as a color contrast.

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Releasing the Stresses of a Day in Death Valley National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views amongst large rock formations with a look down into the basin and valley and then to the snowcapped peaks of the Panamint Range. This is in Death Valley National Park while walking along the Dantes View Trail.

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Morning Light Across Death Valley National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the west while taking in views across Badwater Basin and then to a more distant snowcapped mountain range while at Dantes View in Death Valley National Park.

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20 Miles and 6000 Feet (Death Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking along the Dante's View Trail with a view looking to the northwest across Badwater Basin to snowcapped ridges and peaks of the Panamint Range on the other side of the valley. Compose the same message, I pull back on the focal length and then angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to bring out more of a sweeping view down the mountainside and then across the valley. I figured that would bring the mountains higher into the image and create more of a sense of grandeur with them. There would be a little bit of blue skies above, but I felt they really add much to the image as a negative space. The focus with the image would be on the patterns and colors of the salt basin, as well as the more distant mountains. As for the distances, that was just a simple Google measuring tool from Dantes View to Telescope Peak. The elevation was also from Dantes View but down to Badwater Basin and it being below sea level.

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Life in the Mountains of Death Valley National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at Dantes View with a view looking to the northwest down the mountainside and into the main salt basin below. This is in Death Valley National Park. My thought on composing this image was to use the mountainside that I was on and have that as a layered approach looking to the basin below, and then more distant ridges and peaks of the Panamint Range. I felt that bringing the more distant mountains higher into the image would help create a sense of grandeur with this national park setting.