We live in a bewildering world…
- Stephen Hawking.
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Last weekend we decided to finally tackle one nearby location that was forever in our radar. We have been hoping to visit the Anza Borrego desert for a long time and even made the drive once but we severely under calculated the distance and ended up at the park after sunset.
So this time we started early and reached the park visitor center in time. But rangers were not very confident in our ability to make the Fonts Point drive, so we decided to see the massive sculptures dotting the desert landscape. Anyways after spending an hour shooting the sculptures, my wife got bored and suggested we tackle the fonts point drive. I was skeptical about my offroading abilities as the entire 9 mile roundtrip is done on a dried up riverbed in deep sand. Turns out I was worried over nothing, as our Subaru outback just came alive as soon as we left the pavement, the steering become lighter and it just was a breeze to navigate the offroad path.
We reached the point about 45 mins before sunset and had the place all to ourselves. This shot is a panorama stitch image made at the point looking south towards Mexico which I read was visible on a clear day. The formations remind me of Zabriskie point at Death Valley national park, only less vivid but much bigger in scale. I am glad we finally got to visit this beautiful location. Hope you all like the image.
We live in a bewildering world…
- Stephen Hawking.
| facebook | 500px | ferpectshotz |
Last weekend we decided to finally tackle one nearby location that was forever in our radar. We have been hoping to visit the Anza Borrego desert for a long time and even made the drive once but we severely under calculated the distance and ended up at the park after sunset.
So this time we started early and reached the park visitor center in time. But rangers were not very confident in our ability to make the Fonts Point drive, so we decided to see the massive sculptures dotting the desert landscape. Anyways after spending an hour shooting the sculptures, my wife got bored and suggested we tackle the fonts point drive. I was skeptical about my offroading abilities as the entire 9 mile roundtrip is done on a dried up riverbed in deep sand. Turns out I was worried over nothing, as our Subaru outback just came alive as soon as we left the pavement, the steering become lighter and it just was a breeze to navigate the offroad path.
We reached the point about 45 mins before sunset and had the place all to ourselves. This shot is a panorama stitch image made at the point looking south towards Mexico which I read was visible on a clear day. The formations remind me of Zabriskie point at Death Valley national park, only less vivid but much bigger in scale. I am glad we finally got to visit this beautiful location. Hope you all like the image.