Artist's Palette, Death Valley National Park, CA
This rock feature is a popular spot in the park. There is a nine mile drive through the badlands that leads to this location. There are many pull outs along the way that you can stop and take landscapes of the mountainside. You get better light if you shoot this in the afternoon so that the sun hits the rock face correctly.
The color in the rocks comes from the many types of minerals that are present. There is iron, mica, and manganese present that provide the color. I thought there was a copper vein here for the green, but I was wrong. If there was it probably would have been mined out.
Artist's Palette, Death Valley National Park, CA
This rock feature is a popular spot in the park. There is a nine mile drive through the badlands that leads to this location. There are many pull outs along the way that you can stop and take landscapes of the mountainside. You get better light if you shoot this in the afternoon so that the sun hits the rock face correctly.
The color in the rocks comes from the many types of minerals that are present. There is iron, mica, and manganese present that provide the color. I thought there was a copper vein here for the green, but I was wrong. If there was it probably would have been mined out.