ome follow me on facebook and Flickr Info about learning processing at my website. Looks great on black. One day back in march of this year I found myself in a 4runner with David Thompson and Paul Rojas bouncing around down a remote dirt road in death valley national park. With proper 4wd, the amount of access to remote sections of the park offers so many options, and after a fair amount of convincing, Paul agreed to heading into a rarely visited valley where we knew we might find something interesting. There had been a lot of weather moving through the area shortly before, and how passable the road was, was a concern. The trip was white knuckled for all three of us, and I'm sure more so for Paul, who was driving. Slippery mud along stretches of road with sheer drop offs to one side. Fallen rocks littering the road that required david and I to get out and move them so we could pass. It was fun... after we eluded death, and got to where we were going of course. We scouted, found this place, got stoked, shot sunset, which didn't result in anything worthwhile, and turned in, with hopes for an epic morning. David, being the smart man he is, decided to not bring a sleeping bag or tent on this trip, so he ended up TRYING to sleep in the 4 runner... with little success. I rose before dawn, ready to trek back out to our spot, to find a Mr. Grumpy pants Thompson, grumbling, 'Clouds too thick', which to this day still makes me laugh. He was hell bent on believing our endeavors were made in futility. Well, to his credit, they were pretty thick... I understood, sleep deprivation is a bitch! We went anyway. Lucky for us, the sun broke through at one point and shined this thin band of awesomeness on the mountain. We were all happy. Only obstacle left? Getting out safe. I enjoyed another moment of comedic relief when I found David and Paul sitting in the front seat of the 4runner, huddled over the operation manual, reading about 4wd and how it works. Haha, a little late for that, dudes! I'm not sure what they were hoping to find, I mean, we made it out there ok! I wasn't worried, but they seemed a little on edge. Ok I was a little worried, that road was pretty sketch in spots. We made it ok, NICE DRIVING PAUL! Anyway, here's my shot from the morning. I loved the geometric shape and arrangement of the tiles, which where probably 3 inches thick. Really pretty fascinating to see. via 500px http://ift.tt/1tVzQLW
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