On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
This series was created by Alain Chamot (1971-2020).
Tom V
I just got back from Death Valley, a photographer’s paradise.
Here are some iPhone shots I got. The good light lasted about 3 minutes before the clouds rolled in, and then made a brief 30 second return 20 minutes later. If you go, be walking into the dunes as soon as there is enough light to navigate.
-Tom-
Mesquite Flats, Stovepipe Creek, Death ValleyMarch 9, 2021
Mesquite Flats, Stovepipe Creek, Death ValleyMarch 9, 2021
Mesquite Flats, Stovepipe Creek, Death ValleyMarch 9, 2021
Mesquite Flats, Stovepipe Creek, Death ValleyMarch 9, 2021
Mesquite Flats, Stovepipe Creek, Death ValleyMarch 9, 2021
Mesquite Flats, Stovepipe Creek, Death ValleyMarch 9, 2021
Mesquite Flats, Stovepipe Creek, Death ValleyMarch 9, 2021
The good light makes a partial return between a break in clouds.
There go two miscreants
Very cool pix! The second one looks almost like it’s tiled.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
I went to Death Valley a few times as a wee tike, but haven’t been back since. Madame wants to go. I’ve got pics of me sitting on those sand dunes.
KSinMA
Beautiful!
Mary G
The light in that third shot is mwah {chef’s kiss}. Very painterly, as are several of the others. Thanks for getting up that early there so I didn’t have to!
Steve in the ATL
Wow—nice shots!
raven
Sweet
debbie
Sand dunes are a real work of art. A photographer friend of mine traveled to Namibia and photographed the sand dunes there. Just awesome!
HinTN
@Mary G: Yes, methinks Ms O’Keeffe would have been very proud to call that hers
ETA – Thanks, Tom V!
JeanneT
Stunning.
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Anyway
Whoa! They are so great and taken on a phone?! Stunning. I can’t pick a fave, like them all.
JanieM
Wow. Just amazing.
Mike in Oly
Beautiful shots! I just love the color palette.
Jerzy Russian
Went camping in Death Valley once, and got rained on. As I recall, thus was in March, so sometime in late winter/early spring.
TomatoQueen
Ms O’Keefe is giving her quarter-smile and nod. Well done indeed.
Albatrossity
Wonderful images!
DV is a special place, for sure.
J R in WV
You can certainly see why it got called Death Valley~!!~ Amazing place, wonderful photos~!!~ Thanks for sharing.
ETA: And on a phone… more amaze!
Unique uid
Nice!
Which iPhone?
Yutsano
“Oh, yes. I forgot to tell you. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe. A desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.”
This is actually a high compliment, as you can see the dryness that evokes the deepest dunes of the Sahara. Beautiful pics!
JustRuss
Very nice. Haven’t been to DV since a college field trip, which was…some time ago. Ready to go back.
way2blue
Great photos. The colors, the compositions, the textures, the fragility of the dunes… Thanks for sharing!
Tom V
@Unique uid: Iphone Xs. Shots are mostly full-frame except a 2 degree roll to right because I can’t hold the phone straight. Only post-processing was the Apple Photos “Auto Enhance” on some of them.
cope
Thank you for showing us these beautiful shots. I love the desert. I used to live in the desert but now I don’t. I want to go back to the desert even more now after seeing these lovely pictures.
Thanks again.