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inonibird · 11 months

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I survived Tatooine Death Valley~

#travel #Death Valley National Park #photography #Inoni Sighting #landscapes #desert #Golden Canyon #Badwater Basin #Mesquite Flat Dunes #Zabriskie Point #is this a Star Wars post?#I think it's kind of a Star Wars post

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hrsnowden · 1 year

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Mesquite Flat Dunes - Death Valley NP

Harry Snowden

#photographers on tumblr #film photography #death valley #desert #sand dunes #Mesquite flat dunes #yashica mat 124g #6x6 #120mm #tmax #analog photography #national parks #blackandwhite

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promontoryranger · 5 months

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Empty Spaces

For this week’s Lens-Artists Photography Challenge, Patti invites us to explore empty spaces in our photography. Empty spaces can draw more attention to our subject, as it does in this wildflower photo. Empty spaces draw attention to your subject. In wildlife photography, leaving a lot of empty space in front of your subject gives them room to move. Empty space gives this meadowlark plenty of…

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#abstract photography #Badwater #Death Valley #Death Valley National Park #Desert #empty spaces #Eureka Sand Dunes #Ibex Sand Dunes #Landscape photography #Lens Artists Photo Challenge #Lens-Artists #Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes #Mojave Desert #National Parks #nature photography #salt flats #sand dunes

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thorsenmark · 11 months

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Handicap Parking Only (Death Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Except for Ravens. While at the parking area at the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes with a view looking to the southwest to a raven perched on a sign. This is in Death Valley National Park. My thought on composing this image was to move around until I could find a backdrop that would complement the raven perched. I used the ridges coming off Tucki Mountain and blue skies.

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cpleblow · 6 days

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Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes

Death Valley, CA

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#landscape #sand dunes #death valley #early morning #road trip #2016 #camping #travel #photographers on tumblr #original photographer #imiging

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stumbleimg · 1 year

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An incredible sunrise at the Mesquite Flats Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, CA [OC][5120x1390]

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misslubaluft · 1 year

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Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley.

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bleachbleachbleach · 2 years

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🌙Happy Birthday Aizen! 🌙

This year for Aizen's birthday, I went to Hueco Mundo Death Valley National Park. Not only is the name on theme, the conditions there are extreme. This place holds the world record for hottest air temperature ever recorded at 130F (54.4C). Luckily when I was there, it hit a mere 113F (45C) 😂. But I figured it was the closest place I could get on earth to Aizen's adopted home.

In order to beat the heat, I decided to be absolutely ridiculous and set myself to have morning tea (with Aizen) over the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes (the most Hueco Mundo-y place in the park). Because it's nearly summer here and the sun rises early, I made my poor friend get up at 3:15a so we could drive for an hour to reach this location in order to capture the sunrise. But honestly, it was gorgeous and amazing and everything I could've hoped for. I think Aizen would've enjoyed the moments of stillness as the sun rose over the valley and immersed everything in light. (I realize Hueco Mundo doesn't have a sun, but I think there's a reason why Aizen put a permanent sun in Las Noches).

If you ever get over to Death Valley, I highly recommend having a cup of tea on Aizen's behalf.

More Hueco Mundo/Death Valley pictures to come soon!!

#happy birthday aizen!#another year another aizen birthday #i don't think i'm gonna be able to top this though #aizen sousuke #death valley national park #bleach travel #i am very excited to share the rest of the hueco mundo pictures with everyone i just did not finish editing them in time #bleach edits

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writer-and-artist27 · 1 year

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[Image Description: Five different photos of landscapes found in Nevada and California, each with a tiny keychain plush version of Fate/Grand Order's version of Robin Hood looking on from the bottom left corner. The landscapes include bright red desert rocks from the Valley of Fire, the sunrise from Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, lighter rocks and a horizon of salt pools from Death Valley. End Description.]

A day after coming home from a near-week long road trip, and I'm glad to be home, I can say.

And it's nice having a tiny May King with me, both at home and on trips. A friend joked on how "my sunshine is taking in the sunshine" from the sunrise, and considering how much I've been writing for Fate now, I can't deny that.

Hope you all are doing okay with the end of the year coming up. Life over here is at least a bit easier.

#picoftheday #landscape #national parks #robin hood (fate)#vy says something #personal thoughts #nature #some favorite photos of mine #where robin liked to pop up in my hand from my jacket pocket #valley of fire #death valley

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hrsnowden · 1 year

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Mesquite Flat Dunes - Death Valley - California

Harry Snowden

#photographers on tumblr #death valley #california #film photography #analogue #nikon fe #kodachrome #sand dunes #desert #original photography

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xtruss · 1 day

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Great Egret In the Desert, 2012 This close up, photographed at J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Florida, is juxtaposed against the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley.

The Art of Birds, Revealed Through an Altered Reality

— By Becky Harlan • Published: June 30, 2015 | Saturday April 27, 2024 | All Images Created By Cheryl Medow

At first glance, these birds wowed me. A few seconds later I started to wonder, Are they real?

Well … Yes. And No.

Grey Crowned Cranes Each crowned crane was photographed on an acacia tree near Richards Camp in Masai Mara, Kenya. Mount Kenya was photographed from a Cessna.

Before attempting to explain what’s going on in these images, the artist, Cheryl Medow, might appreciate you taking a similar approach to experiencing her photography as she does to making it. “I don’t think my pictures through,” she says, “I feel them.”

She described this incident to me: Visitors at one of her gallery shows were asking questions about how she creates her work, and she was answering. But then a guest approached her and said, “No, no, no, don’t say a thing. I just want to enjoy these pictures.” It was then that she realized that she was looking for an emotional reaction, for people to enjoy looking at the work without having all the answers.

So please: Look. Enjoy. Feel.

Roseate Spoonbills Each bird was photographed at St. Augustine’s Farm in Florida. This is where they nest in the spring. The waves were shot in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

Cattle Egret Portrait ”During mating season the cattle egret colors are like a rainbow,” says Medow. This portrait was photographed in Florida, with the pattern of sand dunes from Death Valley in the background.

White Ibis With Fish This white ibis with his seaweed and fish catch were photographed at J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida. The background clouds and surf were shot in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

But if you’re like me, you still want to know the story behind these images. So here goes.

These are real birds, photographed in the wild. They are also pictured in real landscapes. And both parts of the images are photographed by Medow. But they weren’t captured at the same time and often not in the same place.

Why does she go to the trouble of capturing these stunning birds in the wild and then transposing them somewhere else?

Great Blue Heron With Chicks Balancing on a branch, the great blue heron was photographed at the Venice Rookery in Venice, Florida, along with the chicks in a nest. The background was photographed in Bigfork, Montana.

Greater Flamingo I This flamingo was photographed on Isabela Island in the Galápagos in a brackish saltwater lagoon. The clouds were also photographed in the Galápagos on a different day.

It all started because she was photographing birds with a 600mm lens. And when you shoot birds with a lens that long, the rest of the background becomes blurry—the birds wind up being the only thing in the frame that’s in focus. All context is lost. She wanted to put the birds back into an environment, so she began creating composite images.

At first she was just placing the birds into photos of the landscapes where she’d originally shot them. But then she realized she could take it to another level—she could put the birds anywhere and at any scale.

Saddle-Billed Storks This mother and baby were photographed in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The landscape was shot by plane in the same area, traveling from Sirikoi Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Laikipia to Richards Camp in Masai Mara.

“I’m an artist first, and photography is a tool that I use to be creative,” she says. “When I picked up the camera and the computer it opened up new possibilities for me. I can make the birds much larger than life. It draws attention to these guys that if you just saw them in the wild with the naked eye you wouldn’t see.”

She draws inspiration from the Hudson River School painters. “They took their sketchpads and went out, as I take my camera and go out, and they got sketches of all these different things. And when they went back to their studios and made their paintings, they combined the different elements that they had seen out in the field. So when the normal person went to the Hudson River and looked for the pictures they couldn’t find some of them. And that’s because they weren’t out there in the real world. Even the painters had manipulated what they had seen and brought it together and combined different elements to make their paintings,” she says. “They’re redoing nature in their mind’s eye, and I guess I’m doing that too.”

Reddish Egret This bird was photographed at Little Estero Lagoon, Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The landscape was also shot in Fort Myers at a different time.

Her subjects come from all over the world. Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, Los Angeles, New Mexico, the Galápagos, Costa Rica, and Brazil are some of the places she’s traveled to photograph birds. She’ll often photograph at a certain place during a certain season to see, for instance, an egret in its mating plumage. “I’ll pick April and May to go to Florida because that’s when they’re in their mating colors,” she says.

Great Egrets, A Starry Night The egrets were photographed in St. Augustine, Florida, and Devereux Lagoon and Slough, Santa Barbara, California. The night sky was photographed in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

Some might think that because these images involve Photoshop in their final state that the painstaking work of photographing a bird in the wild is somehow less work. But Medow assures me that capturing these creatures in the wild isn’t for the hurried. “When I go out and shoot birds there’s a real Zen, a meditative state. Patience is something that I think is a wonderful asset to have, and I don’t usually use it in my normal life, so when I go out in the field I can almost zone out. I could sit there for hours waiting for birds to come and go,” she says. “They’re wild. They’re really wild. They can fly away. There’s something about that that’s just intriguing to me.”

#Birds 🐦 🦢 🦅#Arts #Photography #Proof #Miscellaneous Birds 🦢 🦅 🦜 🦆#Flamingo 🦩#Roseate Spoonbills | White Ibis #Great Blue Heron #Saddle-Billed Storks | Reddish Egret #Grey Crowned Crane #Great Egret

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promontoryranger · 1 year

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My Favorite Places

This week I’d like to share with you all some of my favorite places, ones I will miss this winter as I practice The Middle Way on Orcas Island. This week’s Lens-Artist’s Photo Challenge is Home Sweet Home. Tina Schell of Travels and Trifles asks us, ” If a foreigner were to spend a week or a month traveling your home country with you, where would you take them? What sights would you tell them to…

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thorsenmark · 11 months

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Free Time and Being Outside Are Wondrous (Death Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking along the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes with a view looking to the south at Tucki Mountain and other peaks along the ridgeline of the Panamint Range. This is in Death Valley National Park. My thought on composing this image was to capture a contrast between the light colored sands and the darker earth-tones of the mountainside. I felt that had a element for a composition, and then I just needed to move around and align myself to include interesting things in the foreground with plant-life and the sand dune ridges. The rest was metering to not blow any highlights, given the sun's position in the skies above.

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gepetordi1 · 19 days

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Tasha in Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes at sunrise. Death Valley, CA.

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stumbleimg · 1 year

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Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley NP during high winds [OC] [4242x2828]

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