86 Years of Joshua Tree Sublimity
Happy 86th anniversary to Joshua Tree National Park, which was designated as a National Monument on this day by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on this day in 1936. Joshua Tree National Park really did a number on me. I’ve fallen in love with other parks upon my first visit before like Bryce, or Yellowstone, or Smoky, but Joshua Tree is so weird and surreal and captivating in a whole new way.
Joshua Tree feels like an alien world. It's not the same alien beauty of Yellowstone, which has its "traditional" wilderness beauty augmented by the bizarre sights of steam and colorful springs, where the ethereal motion of steam and water add a kinetic layer to the land. Joshua Tree isn’t the same as the alien beauty of Bryce, whose weird hoodoo shapes and forms become charming and enchanting as you make your way around or into the amphitheater. Instead, Joshua Tree’s essential strangeness comes in the downright stark and bleak beauty of sun-bleached rocks providing a backdrop to artfully the twisted and convoluted outlines of beautiful trees, each one with its own personality and a story to tell. Joshua Tree is a Dali painting come to life in stone and flora and fauna.
It's. Just. So. Different.
- In Joshua Tree, California, you are on Newe (Western Shoshone) and Yuhaviatam/Maarenga’yam (Serrano) land. #FindYourPark
📷- @sonyalpha #sonyalpha #sonyalpha7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer on a 70-300mm. ISO 100, f11, 1/125
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86 Years of Joshua Tree Sublimity
Happy 86th anniversary to Joshua Tree National Park, which was designated as a National Monument on this day by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on this day in 1936. Joshua Tree National Park really did a number on me. I’ve fallen in love with other parks upon my first visit before like Bryce, or Yellowstone, or Smoky, but Joshua Tree is so weird and surreal and captivating in a whole new way.
Joshua Tree feels like an alien world. It's not the same alien beauty of Yellowstone, which has its "traditional" wilderness beauty augmented by the bizarre sights of steam and colorful springs, where the ethereal motion of steam and water add a kinetic layer to the land. Joshua Tree isn’t the same as the alien beauty of Bryce, whose weird hoodoo shapes and forms become charming and enchanting as you make your way around or into the amphitheater. Instead, Joshua Tree’s essential strangeness comes in the downright stark and bleak beauty of sun-bleached rocks providing a backdrop to artfully the twisted and convoluted outlines of beautiful trees, each one with its own personality and a story to tell. Joshua Tree is a Dali painting come to life in stone and flora and fauna.
It's. Just. So. Different.
- In Joshua Tree, California, you are on Newe (Western Shoshone) and Yuhaviatam/Maarenga’yam (Serrano) land. #FindYourPark
📷- @sonyalpha #sonyalpha #sonyalpha7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer on a 70-300mm. ISO 100, f11, 1/125
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#joshuatree #joshuatreenationalpark #mojavedesert #mojave #joshuatrees #california #cali #californiaadventure #californiaphotographer #californialove #californialiving #caliexplored #FindYourPark @usinterior @nationalparkservice #usinterior : : #nationalparkgeek @nationalparkgeek @national_park_photographer @bestoftheusa_nationalparks #seekmorewilderness #national_park_photography #nationalpark #iflnps #travel #travelwithmoon #nationalparkservice #bealpha #longexposure_shots #yes_busa #jotrphoto2022