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Hello Flickr Friends, I hope everyone is doing well. This is another re-edit from my trip to Death Valley in 2012 with my trusty old D300s. Racetrack Playa is such a cool place. Without the tracks created by the rocks you might just think time was standing still on the playa.
Plenty of action on the Racetrack as a westbound Metra Dinky comes into Highlands. A freight in the distance at Western Springs, and the headlight of the Southwest Chief and a railfan on the right enjoying the action.
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So I decided to see if I could stitch some of my photos together to make a panorama. So I downloaded a free trial version of ArcShoft Panorama Maker 4. It was so easy it's not even funny.
This is a series of 4 pictures I took. I'm glad I learned how to stitch them together. Now I just need to play with it in Picasa or a free trial version of PS that I downloaded the other day to get the colors right. As you can see the sky is all washed out, so there is no blue at all. The one major thing I did wrong with this is I did not take all four pictures with the same settings. It is important not to use the default settings. The reason being as you turn, the metering may be different for each shot. So manual settings is a must.
The other thing I need is a tripod. I got lucky with this one. But the shots should be level all the way across or you get what I have here with a shorter than I would like photo. This is something I will try again. I have some pictures from Sandy Hook that might look good as a panorama.
Tell me what you think.
The Racetrack Playa at Death Valley -- best known as the home of the rocks that slide themselves across the ground, leaving nothing but tracks in the mud -- is an ancient lake bed. Melt from a recent snow has left the playa temporarily submerged, converting it into a nearly perfect mirror. I was in a fortunate position here when the last light of the day broke through a small hole in the clouds, illuminating this pyramid of rock on the far side of the lake.
The Racetrack, in Death Valley, where the stones travel by themselves is an incredible location. The long off-road drive to get there is definitely worth it: seeing and photographing these stones with their trails is magic, every time. Leica SL (Typ 601) and Voigtlander 15mm.
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Death Valley National Park - where the rocks slide on the flat empty lake bed. It was a long drive in an off road jeep to get there.
The valley is famous for the moving rocks, however there is life on the valley floor.
Additional dialog on the valley is with the previous two images.
Post: Luminar 2018 & Lightroom - 5 for basic setup.
Race track atmoshpere.
Alpine LMP2 race car, Michelin sponsoring side covers, track side photographer
Photogrpahed at the Spa-Francorchamps race track in Belgium, during the 2018 6H of Spa race.
Racetrack Playa and its moving rocks is a must see place when you visit Death Valley, however, if your vehicle is not the type that can take a beating don't even try it. It took us near 3 hours to make the 26 miles trek. We went mid afternoon and stay over night. The camping at the end of the road is free.
47 652 rushes past Shipton By Beningborough, north of York with 1M19, the 17:50 Newcastle - Liverpool
that I stepped away from the crowd, into a barren land - wandered a long and isolated path to become here before you...
yup it's that rock that everybody shots.
Two stones and their trail left behind on the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park. Movement of the stones is caused by a rare combination of events. First, the playa fills with water, which must be deep enough to allow formation of floating ice during cold winter nights but shallow enough to expose the rocks. As nighttime temperatures plummet, the pond freezes to form sheets of "windowpane" ice, which must be thin enough to move freely but thick enough to maintain strength. On sunny days, the ice begins to melt and break up into large floating panels, which light winds drive across the playa pool. The ice sheets shove rocks in front of them and the moving stones leave trails in the soft mud bed below the pool surface.
Post by Stephen Ball Photography.
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Settings: 0.5, ƒ/16, ISO 100, 16 mm
Camera: Nikon D800e
Processing: For my initial version of this picture, I used the WB as shot (using camera auto WB). I did not really spend too much time on it. I was looking back to some of my previous pictures, and the colors did not really look right, especially for the dried mud. I used auto WB from LightRoom, and got much better color matching what I remember seeing... I am reposting since it is drastically different looking with the new WB.
Ref: DSC_0046 > DSC_0046-Edit
This was my first visit to this place. It was truly amazing. I heard that the playa recently got flooded. I hope no one stepped into the muddy bed and the moving tracks are still intact.
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outrider, from this morning's tour of the track - HFF!
hopefully Sat's race will have less controversy than the Derby
Krefeld, Pferderennbahn ..... und in der Mitte der Golfplatz .....
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and the Golf course in the middle of it .......
Traveling to the USA isn't exactly recommended at the moment – so it's a good thing there's a racetrack in the Allgäu region...
Death Valley National Park
Dry lake, sometimes filled with water, is located in the north-western part of Death Valley National Park, California, USA. Is known an interesting geological phenomenon - moving along the dry bottom of the stones.
The Château de Chantilly is one of the finest jewels in the crown of France’s cultural heritage. It is the work of a man with an extraordinary destiny: Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale, son of the last King of France, Louis-Philippe. This prince, who is considered to be the greatest collector of his time, made Chantilly the showcase for his countless masterpieces and precious manuscripts. The Château survived down through the centuries and remains as it was when the Duke of Aumale gave it as a gift it to the Institut de France in 1886, making it the perfect place to take a journey back in time to the heart of a princely residence. In tribute to his illustrious predecessors, the Princes of Condé, the Duke of Aumale called the series of rooms housing his collection the “Condé Museum"