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An oil effect BW image with red filter, this image was taken just after dawn at the Racetrack Playa - an ancient dry lake bed, located in a remote northwestern section of Death Valley, CA. In the foreground is an example of one of the "mysterious" sliding rocks on the playa, and the trail left behind. Far off in the distance is snow covered Mt. Hunter. Winter in DV!
This same image is posted slightly differently in the Death Valley collection.


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A single stone casts a long shadow across a cracked and parched desert floor, surrounded by distant, rugged mountains under a dramatic sky. The monochrome scheme enhances the stark and desolate beauty of the landscape.

As a kid I was fascinated with photographs. Look. Life magazine. National Geographic. That well-captured interplay of light and shadow...the notion of people, places and moments - all suspended in time. My first "real" camera was a Minolta Srt101. I was seduced. As a teenager, I learned to develop film while working at Wyle Laboratories in El Segundo. I still recall the smell of the developer, my eyes adjusting to the red filter light, and the sheer magic and delight of watching images begin to emerge. Life, family and a career as a teacher and psychologist intervened, not to mention a few more film cameras. Eventually, there was digital. Liberation! Photography is the creative medium that has allowed me to share personal ...