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Landscape Photography: Snow Recce in Antelope Valley CA

March 4, 2021 D. Craig Young 1 Comment

Snow filled the valleys of the western Great Basin at the end of January, when lake-effect squalls, energized as the…

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Posted in: LightOpt Filed under: Antelope Valley, California, great basin, Great Blue Heron, landscape photography, wildlife

A glow that had to last — Death Valley, Part 3

October 12, 2020 D. Craig Young 9 Comments
astrophotography at Cyclops Arch, Alabama Hills, California

It was time for a shower. Climbing out of Death Valley, we arrived at Lone Pine, California, in the late…

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Posted in: LightOpt Filed under: Alabama Hills, California, landscape photography, Lone Pine, Lone Pine Peak, milky way, Mount Whitney, Sierra Light, Sierra Nevada

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