Month: February 2017

• Leftovers From Death Valley

  Leftovers can be good. Like pizza or Chinese food, leftovers may be better than the originals.       The Furnace Creek Inn at Death Valley rents for a cool $499 per night. They also charge a $13.44 per day resort fee. Really?              

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 28, 2017

  California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, National Parks

  California, clouds, Death Valley, Desert, Furnace Creek, Mountains, National Park, Sand Dunes, Stovepipe Wells, Valleys

• Death Valley’s Panamint Valley

  Another large valley at Death Valley National Park is Panamint Valley. It is 65 miles long and up to 10 miles wide and stretches from Panamint Dunes, located inside the park, to the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Center. It is also home to the Barker Ranch, infamous as the temporary home of the Charles […]

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 26, 2017

  California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, National Parks

  California, Death Valley, Desert, Images, National Park, Panamint Dunes, Panamint Valley, Photography, photos, Roads, Sand Dunes, Snow-Covered, Telescope Peak

• Eureka Dunes In Detail

  The finer details of  Eureka Dunes at Death Valley National Park.                    

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 25, 2017

  California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, National Parks

  California, Death Valley, Detail, Dunes, Eureka Dunes, Images, National Park, Photography, photos, Ripples, Sagebrush, Sand, Tracks

• Eureka Dunes In The Abstract

  The  lines and shapes of the sand dunes at Eureka Valley at Death Valley National Park make for some good abstract images.  The contrast between shadows and highlights also accentuate the abstractness.                

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 23, 2017

  California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, National Parks, Photography

  Abstract, California, Death Valley, Digital, Dunes, Eureka Dunes, Images, National Park, Photography, photos, Sand, Shadows, Shapes, Sunset

• The Remote Eureka Valley

  Eureka Valley is located within Death Valley National Park and was added to the park when Death Valley became a national park in 1994. Death Valley NP is now the largest national park in the lower 48 states at over 3.3 million acres, 50% more than Yellowstone. Ninety One per cent of the park is […]

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 22, 2017

  California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, National Parks, Weather

  California, clouds, Death Valley, Desert, Dunes, Eureka Dunes, Eureka Valley, Images, Last Chance Range, Map, National Park, Photography, photos, Rain, Sand, Sandstorm, White Mountains

• Wintry Owens Valley

  In the middle of my visit to Death Valley last week, I made a side trip through California’s Owens Valley.  The snow level was much lower than in previous years as California has been hit with numerous storms this winter. Unfortunately, low clouds obscured the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.       […]

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 20, 2017

  California, Seasons, Weather

  California, highway 395, Images, Mountains, Owens Valley, Photography, photos, Sierra Nevadas, Sierras, Snow-Covered, Valley, Winter

• Death Valley Moonrise

  A full moon rises over the Last Chance Mountains at Death Valley National Park, California.              

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 17, 2017

  California, Death Valley, National Parks

  California, Death Valley, Full Moon, Images, Last Chance Mountains, Lunar, Moon, Moonrise, National Park, Photography, photos

• Baja Mexico Road Trip

  Originally posted on dawn2dawn photography:
  Baja California is not in California, it’s in Mexico. The Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) is not in California, it’s in Mexico. But whatever it’s called, Baja  Mexico is a place of much diversity, great landscapes and a vast desert environment surrounded by immense bodies of water.  https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9998847,-113.5,6z…

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 16, 2017

  Photography

• Death Valley’s Badwater Basin

  Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park, is a landscape of extremes.  Extreme temperatures, extreme elevation changes and extreme dryness.  Because the basin is at an elevation of 282 feet below sea level,  the average high temperature in July is 116 degrees F.  The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134 degrees at Death […]

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 15, 2017

  California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, National Parks, Wildlife

  Badwater Basin, California, Coyote, Death Valley, Images, National Park, Peaks, Photography, photos, Salt Flats, Snow-Covered, Valley, Wildlife

• It Never Rains In Death Valley

  Well, almost, it did a little this past Friday. Death Valley only receives 2 inches per year, mostly in the winter. In a lot of locations in this world, you can receive 2 inches of rain in less than an hour.  The storm clouds gave Death Valley National Park a look I normally don’t see. […]

  Michael Andrew Just

  February 13, 2017

  California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, National Parks, Weather

  Badwater Basin, California, clouds, Death Valley, Desert, Images, National Park, Photography, photos, Rain, Rainstorm, Storms