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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.

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I Found Myself Driving, Hours Upon Hours (Death Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I Found Myself Driving, Hours Upon Hours Just for the possibility of seeing this again Recent snow storms had allowed me To see another beauty of southern California But it also closed roads, with the one here being one At least, until earlier that day You didn’t disappoint years ago And you’re still wondrous today Mountain peaks and Badwater An imaginary Mos Eisley The wind takes away my breath, Literally and figuratively, when I take in this view Dante’s View, you only bring out awe Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon in Death Valley National Park at Dantes View. My thought on composing this image was a simple landscape one with my Nikon SLR camera angled slightly downward to capture a sweeping view down the mountainside, across Badwater Basin, and then to the snowcapped peaks of the Panamint Range. I would lose much of the blue skies above, but I felt this alignment helped to bring out a wider angle, almost panoramic feel with the image captured. My thought on this location brought back memories from April 2015 on an earlier visit seeing this wondrous landscape in a national park. I could imagine a Star Wars setting with Mos Eisley as well as just the natural beauty present. There was a wind blowing that could easily take one’s breath away but had that crisp, cool feel with the low temperatures to make for an enjoyable, brisk walk along the trails and ridges. If you look at the lower portion of the image just left of center, you will notice a what looks like a thin white walkway jutting out. You can zoom in and notice tiny ant people walking along Badwater Basin, almost 6000 feet below!

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Bennett Peak While Talking in Views of Northern New Mexico by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 5 with a view looking to the northwest across the northern New Mexico high desert setting. Bennett Peak is the formation off in the distance.

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Between Bennett Peak and Telescope Peak, Death Valley, California

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Bennett Peak: Rio Grande County Highpoint

Bennett Peak: Rio Grande County Highpoint

After a day with successful summits of both Summit and Conejos Peaks, I headed eastwards through the mountains to the small community of Jasper. In Jasper, I turned north onto Blowout Pass road. Blowout Pass wasn’t a particularly difficult drive, it was just steep and narrow however, I was very much hoping I didn’t run into someone coming downhill (and if I did, I was totally going to invoke the…

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