How to Photograph Sand Dunes
It’s never a bad day to capture landscape photography on the dunes. This day, in particular though, was truly one to remember and I share a variety of techniques for how I take photos of sand dunes.
Photographer Shocked to See Northern Lights from Southern California
A photographer was shocked to capture the northern lights as far south as she was in Death Valley, California.
Court Overturns ‘Fair Use’ Ruling After Site Used Photos Without Permission
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of photographer Elliot McGucken who brought a case against Pub Ocean Ltd after they published photos of a lake that had formed in Death Valley without permission.
How to Leverage a Clear, Cloudless Sky in Your Landscape Photos
If the weather forecast shows clear skies and bright sunlight, it doesn't mean photographers should abandon their plans for a landscape shoot. Photographer Michael Shainblum has shared tips on how he leverages these weather conditions to come home with a successful set of photos.
Dunes and Clouds: Photographing Symmetry in the Desert
In 1991, near the end of some book projects that took me on some lengthy photographic journeys through the American West by car for two years, I came up with the idea of creating posters of some of my black and white images for a few of our western National Parks.
Photos of Death Valley Flooded with a 10-Mile Lake
I was out in Death Valley last week and was fortunate to photograph some unique scenes of the floods. A rare 10-mile-long lake formed in Death Valley after heavy rains.
Vandal Abandons Van After Scarring Salt Flat in Death Valley
Less than a year after the famous Racetrack Playa dry lake in Death Valley was vandalized with tire tracks, someone has done the same damage to the nearby Badwater Basin salt flats.
Vandalism at the Iconic Racetrack in Death Valley National Park
A trip last weekend to the iconic Death Valley Racetrack Playa has left me with a burning need to write, and unfortunately it is because of the worst kind of people.
Time-Lapse and GPS Data Proves It’s Not Ghosts Moving Death Valley’s Mysterious ‘Sailing Stones’
Since the early 20th century, people have been studying and theorizing how some rather heavy rocks in Death Valley called 'Sailing Stones' somehow glide across the dry, desert floor of what is often the hottest location in the United States.
And while a number of feasible theories had come to light, it's only recently that one of these theories was proven thanks to a dedicated time-lapse camera setup.
Photographers Get Nocturnal for a Week to Capture Impressive Death Valley Motion Time-Lapse
It took a week of sleepless nights and a whole lot of Red Bull and 5-Hour Energy shots, but the duo of photographers behind Tree Speed Photo managed to get through it in order to capture this, dare we say 'epic,' motion time-lapse in Death Valley.
Photos of New York City Inside the Grand Canyon Contrast Emptiness and Density
At the end of 2012, Swiss photographer Gus Petro took a trip to the United States, and was met with a sharp dichotomy. When he visited New York City, he found density in all its glory. But when he followed that up with a trip to the Grand Canyon, he was struck by the sheer emptiness of it.
This led to a project dubbed Empty, Dense, Merge, and the photos below represent the final third of that triad.
Photographer Captures Strange Flying Object in Death Valley Time-Lapse
In mid-December, photographer Gavin Heffernan and his team braved freezing temps at the Eureka Dunes in Death Valley to capture the beautiful time-lapse footage seen above. They expected to (and did) get some gorgeous shots of dunes and star trails; what they didn't expect was footage of a strange flying object (we're purposely avoiding the term UFO because of its affiliation with oblong green men with large eyes) circling the night sky.