Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar » Storm http://www.parrikar.com/blog Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Truth, Divinity, Beauty) Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:56:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Death Valley – A Study in Texture http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2012/01/19/death-valley-a-study-in-texture/ http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2012/01/19/death-valley-a-study-in-texture/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:38:49 +0000 Rajan P. Parrikar http://www.parrikar.com/blog/?p=8787 Note: To see full-size images in this post, please view the original post by clicking here.

These photographs were taken in a single session along Badwater Road in the Death Valley National Park in California. An impending storm had given rise to conditions atypical in Death Valley – soft, diffused afternoon light that accentuated the colours on the Black Mountains.

Colours
5D Mark II, 24-105L

 

Black Mountains
5D Mark II, 24-105L

 

Palette
5D Mark II, TS-E 17L

 

Folds
5D Mark II, 24-105L

 

Rugged
5D Mark II, 70-200L f/2.8 IS II

 

Black Mountains
5D Mark II, 24-105L

 

Glow
5D Mark II, 24-105L

 
 
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Last year I found myself in the middle of a fierce storm in Death Valley, California. After the initial fury subsided, I positioned myself on Westside Road hoping to catch some of the late evening magic, and was suitably rewarded. The gusts were still very strong and these images had to be made handheld at ISO 400.

Clearing storm, Amargosa range, Westside road
5D Mark II, 70-200L f/2.8 IS II

 

Amargosa range from Westside road in Death Valley
5D Mark II, 70-200L f/2.8 IS II

 
 
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I was fortunate to find myself in the middle of a storm in California’s Death Valley this March.

This shot was taken as the storm raged on at the northern end of the Badwater basin with the Panamint range in the backdrop.

Stormy afternoon in Death Valley, California
5D Mark II, 70-200L f/2.8 IS II

 
 

And about an hour later, we were witness to this marvellous sight.

Rainbow over Death Valley
5D Mark II, 70-200L f/2.8 IS II

 

The build-up to this storm figured in an earlier post.

 
 
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I was fortunate to catch the frisson of an incoming storm this March in Death Valley, California. With conditions changing by the minute, I kept shuttling back and forth between the Westside Road that cuts through the Badwater basin and Zabriskie Point.

Ominous clouds form over the northern end of the Badwater salt pan, as seen from Westside Road.

Storm brewing over Badwater basin in Death Valley
5D Mark II, 24-105L

 

It was a marvellous sight at Zabriskie Point. Notice the giant alluvial fan spreading out from the mouth of the canyon on the far side of the Badwater basin.

Storm clouds loom over Manly Beacon at Zabriskie Point
5D Mark II, 70-200L f/2.8 IS II

 

The colourful mineral-laden mudstone hills near Zabriskie Point contrast with the grey weather all around.

Storm in Death Valley
5D Mark II, 24-105L

 
 
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Romance flowers undeterred by an approaching southwest monsoon storm in Kozhikode (aka Calicut) on the Malabar coast of northern Kerala.

In Calicut, Kerala
5D, 70-200L f/2.8 IS

 
 

Monsoon storm brewing in Calicut, Kerala
5D, 70-200L f/2.8 IS

 
 
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