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The base. There are trails around the tower. My wife wasn't interested in exploring it so all these views are from the visitor's center area.
Devils Cornfield, Morning. Death Valley National Park, California. March 31, 2011. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Low angle morning light silhouettes receding hills and plants near Devils Cornfield, Death Valley National Park.
Taking advantage of the low angle light from the sun as it rose above the Funeral Mountains, I shot almost directly into the light with a long lens to photograph these backlit plants ("arrowweed" I believe) growing along the fringes of the Devils Cornfield area not far from Stovepipe Wells. Although the compressed perspective from the relatively long focal length disguises the fact, I was shooting from a hill that gave me some elevation above the flat surface of the Valley here, and provided a bit better view of the tops of the hills receding into the haze.
I made a variation on this photograph at the same time that I posted earlier - it is in color and used an even longer focal length to get a bit more detail of the mesquite tree that is barely visible in the upper right area of this shot. The color image has a much less start appearance than the black and white rendition with its contrast between the light on the tops of the plants and the surrounding dark soil.
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As promised from yesterday's sneak peak. See if you can spot the climbers from yesterday's photo. Clouds had moved in at this time. But I have some much better photos of the tower with cloud filled blue skies in store for another day.
This photo was taken at a place called the Devil's Cauldron at Whale Beach on the Northern Beaches. I was accompanied by a work colleague of mine,Vic Feferberg whose own photo stream you can view at www.flickr.com/photos/vicfefer/.
It was an early morning shoot which meant getting up at 4am on a cold Autumn Sydney morning.
But it was worth it. So please enjoy the shots of Devil's Cauldron and feel free to comment so that i may improve my photography skills.
for those wishing to know more of this place and if you happen to be in Sydney, check out this link
knol.google.com/k/a-photographer-s-guide-to-devils-cauldr...
Near Kenora, Ontario, there is a narrow water channel in the Lake of the Woods, which is known as "Devil's Gap". Natives believe there are spirits which live within certain rocks at the lake, and this particular rock is one of the best-known of the spirit-rocks. In the late 1800's someone painted a face onto the rock, as a joke, and people have kept repainting the rock ever since then.
Devils Tower rises above the surrounding grassland and Ponderosa pine forests like a rocky sentinel. Northern Plains tribes have worshipped near this remarkable geologic formation for thousands of years. Fur trappers, explorers, and settlers alike were awed by the tower's majesty. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established Devils Tower as our nation's first national monument. Many have gazed at the Tower and wondered, "How did this amazing formation form?"
I've finally processed the rest of the Devil's Lake monochrome images I photographed back in April. I've uploaded several here, and the rest are in this set.
Formed by the glaciers 15,000 years ago, when they filled in both ends of a great river valley, Devil's Lake has always occupied a unique place in the Baraboo hills, its still waters surrounded by brooding 500-foot quartzite bluffs. The Indians called it Spirit Lake, and that seems a more accurate description than the modern name. Devil's Lake is one of Wisconsin's busiest state parks, and it tends to get overrun in the midsummer tourist season. But catch it in the off-season, and its brooding presence comes through. It does seem to be presided over by spirits. Black and white seems the best way to capture its haunted mystery photographically on days like this.