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Trona #8

More wild west look from Trona Pinnacles near Death Valley in California. Trona is located in eastern edge of Searles Lake, dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County.

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Stavros Markopoulos 4 months ago

Beautiful scenery!

suliman almawash 5 months ago

Very beautiful work, Clyde

Clyde Beamer Thanks for your comments!

Regina Pagles 2 years ago

That's one scary place, ain't it Clyde?
Great photo, Regina

Clyde Beamer I never really think of it as scary. I actually find it very inviting!! I've been there many times and love it. Thanks Regina!

psychodaddy 2 years ago

Great photo,and also like the song from Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69 - ;)
cheers

Khontyan 2 years ago

Good.+

Daniel 2 years ago

looks like another world.

Clyde Beamer Yep, really feels that way when you're there too!! Thanks!

Tim Corbeel 2 years ago

Wonderful shot Clyde!
Which film did you use?

Clyde Beamer Thanks Tim. This shot was Velvia 50 converted to B&W in PS.

Tim Corbeel Thanks Clyde! Positive film...should try it again once. Had some bad experience with positive film (Provia 100F) a few months back and didn't use it again since then. :D

Clyde Beamer I have also tried and given up on color negative films. I now shoot either b&w negative or Velvia or digital for color.

Edy Santosa 2 years ago

So barren...welldone Clyde!

Clyde Beamer Some of California's Wild, Wild West!! Thanks Edy!

Glen Ballis 2 years ago

I missed this one...... great work Clyde!

Clyde Beamer Thanks man!

Streetgrapher 2 years ago

I'm glad to see this one got through. Just wonderful.

Clyde Beamer Thank you!

Niels Christian Wulff 2 years ago

Very nice and artistic, love the sky and the light.
/Wulff

Clyde Beamer Thanks!

Alex OBrien 2 years ago

Love the chaos in the calm. Wonderful work Clyde, truly fantastic!

Clyde Beamer Thanks man!! Truly a wonderful place. So close to a huge, heavily traveled NP and almost nobody knows about it, so you can really get alone there most days. I got there at 6:30am, nobody else anywhere, only saw one other family by 10 or so when I left. And, it's BLM land, so you could actually live there in a motorhome if you wanted. Cool thing most don't know about BLM land, you can literally live on it for years and years, you just have to move every 90 days or so...move can mean a few hundred yards. It's our land until the Fed's do a mineral lease then the corp's take control. Most of it is still wide open.

Codrin Lupei 2 years ago

Very beautiful work, Clyde, just great, like it a lot! Keep it up!

Clyde Beamer Thanks man!! I tried a few with the Lensbaby at this place but didn't like them very much. I still haven't really figured that thing out yet. I think I need to spend a couple of days just playing with it.

JBA 2 years ago

Woa, which planet did you say this was? Nice shot Clyde. What a wierd place.

Clyde Beamer Planet Trona!! Not far from Death Valley NP

Doug Roane 2 years ago

perfect toning on this, Clyde and wonderful interaction of light and shadows.

Clyde Beamer Thanks Doug!!

Florin Stefan 2 years ago

Beautiful light and tones.

Clyde Beamer The sky was completely bland right at sunrise. But within about 30 minutes these clouds started forming and the light was a bit diffused by them. Turned out really nice! Thanks Florin!

bogdan81 2 years ago

Very nice:)

Clyde Beamer Thanks!

Øyvind Idland 2 years ago

Nice shot.. the landscape reminds me a bit of Cappadocia, Turkey.

Clyde Beamer Thanks!

Ben Goossens 2 years ago

The shadows did it:-))

Clyde Beamer Pretty cool morning! Great place, great shadows! Thanks Ben!

Ursula I Abresch 2 years ago

This is so West! I love it! I really like that play of shadows, lit up areas. The shadows look like they're trying to grab the things that I don't know what they're called (that stick up out of the ground, sorry). Anyway. I also like the sort of rolling shapes in the front part of the image.

Clyde Beamer I saw this shot when I was up on another part of the left part that's making the shadows. I have a shot that's pretty much 90 degrees of axis of this with a high angle, not nearly as good. So, I walked down there and this is just about right what I thought I would see. I love the depth of this one. And yes, wild wild west look. Scenes from several movies & tv shows have been shot here: Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, The Gate II, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes to mention a few. A must see that most miss when visiting Death Valley.

Quoting form wiki: "The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit from springs of streams), some as high as 140 feet, rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin."