The Wet Spot

Mitica100 · Jan 28, 2009

Beautiful! I like the way one's eyes travel up from the wet spot. Well done.

kundalini · Jan 28, 2009

Well, I found it exciting that my eyes traveled down to the wet spot. Done well.

abraxas · Jan 28, 2009

Thanks Mitica, Kundalini,

I'm just happy to have found the wet spot in the immense amount of surface area I had to search.

Flower Child · Jan 29, 2009

great one abraxas! did you use a wide angle lens for this shot?

Coldow91 · Feb 2, 2009

Awesome! composition is great and the sky is really dark

red1013 · Feb 2, 2009

Is that infrared?

abraxas · Feb 2, 2009

Flower Child said:
great one abraxas! did you use a wide angle lens for this shot?

Thank you. Yes, Sigma 10-20mm. I put the lens on my d300 and have never taken it off.

Coldow91 said:
Awesome! composition is great and the sky is really dark

Thanks, it's the treatment plus an incredibly blue sky.

red1013 said:
Is that infrared?

I processed it to simulate IR,

jaharris1001 · Feb 4, 2009

I wasnt sure WHAT I was gonna find with a title like that :lol:

I love the shot though !! :thumbup:

timethief · Feb 5, 2009

Very Nice composition.
May i ask how many shots you took of this particular shot?

abraxas · Feb 5, 2009

jaharris1001 said:
I wasnt sure WHAT I was gonna find with a title like that I love the shot though !! :thumbup:

Thanks.

timethief said:
Very Nice composition.
May i ask how many shots you took of this particular shot?

This is the first of 3 slightly different compositions. I spent the most time setting this one up.

Moonb007 · Feb 6, 2009

Excellent...I loved it

abraxas · Feb 7, 2009

Moonb007 said:
Excellent...I loved it

Thank you.

LaFoto · Feb 11, 2009

Wow. All your photos are so fascinating. And I keep sending links of them to my son, the geology student!

Maybe one day his studies will take him there on an excursion and I'll just pretend to be young again, and a student, too, and tag along, heehee

. I would really love to see your part of the world with my own eyes one day, too.

abraxas · Feb 11, 2009

LaFoto said:
Wow. All your photos are so fascinating. And I keep sending links of them to my son, the geology student! Maybe one day his studies will take him there on an excursion and I'll just pretend to be young again, and a student, too, and tag along, heehee . I would really love to see your part of the world with my own eyes one day, too.

Thank you LaFoto. I'd like to meet you and your son. I'm amazed and grateful that I get to live here.

Your son may find this link interesting;

Mojave Desert Geology

It is a collection of articles and virtual tours I've found, collected and assembled over the years I've been hanging out around here. Some of the photos are mine, but the text is by experts. This part of the world can really work out a geologist. I've met a few of the desert big dogs in geology, they all have sort of a glazed look in their eyes when we get to talking about the desert. These are the guys I like to hang with when I can. In fact, at the end of this April is the Desert Symposium held out at Zzyzx. The symposium is where scientists, educators and historians get together and present papers on their work. After two days we usually go on a field trip. In the past we've studied Eastern Mojave Desert geology and paleontology, Colorado River geology, Mining history and ancient travel corridors. This year we'll be studying the Western Mojave and it's relationship to the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The night before we go on our trip I'll be giving two photo presentations; first, an exploration of the western desert and eastern Sierra area through a photographer's eyes, then a tribute to the recently passed founder of the symposium, moments of quiet and beauty at Zzyzx. I'm very excited.