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Salt Creek ~ Death Valley National Park
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December 2017
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Again the Pup Fish ~ Link To Ash Meadows NWR Post
Running Water In the Desert, Death Valley ~ Who Knew
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety In Death Valley NP, Lots of Variety In the Gallery
Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads
Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Morning Light ~ Zabriskie Point ~ Death Valley National Park
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December 2017
Zabriskie Point ~ Morning Light
This One Begs To For a Return Engagement
The Above Images Captured Before the Sun Crested the Eastern Peaks of the Funeral Mountains
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety In Death Valley NP, Lots of Variety In the Gallery
Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads
Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Ubehebe Crater ~ Death Valley National Park
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December 2017
Ubehebe Crater
Little Ubehebe ~ Beware the Knife Edge Approach and the Unexpected Vertigo ~ Way Weird
Ubehebe Crater From the Rim Just After the Height of Land
The Trails Down and Back Up ~ Ubehebe Crater
We Took the Trail Around the Rim 
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety In Death Valley NP, Lots of Variety In the Gallery
Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads
Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Artist’s Palette Drive ~ Death Valley NationalPark
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December 2017
Artist’s Palette Drive
This Was a Challenge Between the Wind and Sand & Grit
That and An Overwhelming Number of Photo Opportunities
Will Need To Return and Often
From Artist’s Palette Road Shooting Back Towards Badwater Just Before the Wind and Wind Blown Sand & Grit Ruled the Day
Bajada Boulder In the Foreground
Smart Car In the Mid-Ground
Badwater Flats In the Background
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety In Death Valley NP, Lots of Variety In the Gallery
Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads
Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Harmony Borax Works ~ Death Valley National Park
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December 2017
Harmony Borax Works
Excellent Imagining, Researching, Staging & Presentation of the Original Harmony Borax Operation
Take the Time, Make the Time To Go Hear A NPS Ranger Interpretive Presentation On the Harmony Borax Works
View From Above the Twenty Mule Team Wagons Looking East To the Funeral Mountains
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety In Death Valley NP, Lots of Variety In the Gallery
Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads
Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Mustard Canyon ~ Death Valley National Park
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December 2017
Mustard Canyon
Wind and Sand Storm Over Badwater Blowing From Mesquite Flats
View To the West Towards the Panamints As One Enters Mustard Canyon
View To the East, Funeral Mountains Upon Leaving Mustard Canyon.
The Mustard Color In the Foreground Almost Overwhelmingly Comprises All of Mustard Canyon and Gives Said Canyon Its Eponymous Name
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety Here ~ Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads ~ Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Ash Meadows NWR
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Ash Meadows NWR
It Is All About the Pupfish, Do You Remember the Brouhaha, and Rightly So, Over the Pupfish
Geologic Faults Forcing Fossil Water Up Into the Amargosa Valley Desert As Seeps and Springs Resulting In An Oasis In the Mojave Desert. Ancient Pupfish Living In Those Seeps and Springs
The Devil’s Hole Pupfish, the Ash Meadows Amargosa Pupfish, the Warm Springs Pupfish, and the Ash Meadows Speckled Dace Are All Endangered and All Inhabit Springs, Holes and Streams In Death Valley NP and Ash Meadows NWR.
Back In the Day, the Sixties, These Fish and Conservation Activists Championing Them, Brought Farming, Development and Ground Water Pumping In the Midst of the Mojave Desert In the Amargosa Valley To a Court Ordered Halt, Resulting In the Establishment of the Ash Meadows NWR.
It Is All About the Water, Fossil Water, and the Geology.
“Water is the key natural resource that makes Ash Meadows a unique ecosystem in the dry Mojave Desert. Where does it come from? Over 100 miles to the northeast water enters a vast underground aquifer system. This water, also known as fossil water, takes thousands of years to move through the ground. A geologic faultacts as an underground dam partially blocking the flow of water and forcing it to the surface into over 50 seeps and springs. Over 10,000 gallons per minute flow year round, most of which come from seven major springs.”
“Ash Meadows has the greatest concentration of endemic life in the United States and second greatest in all of North America.
At least 26 endemic species have adapted to live in and around the waters of Ash Meadows”
August 2016 US Fish and Wildlife Service Publication Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 3 AM
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Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio, New Mexico
12-4 2017
Morning Shoot Day Three
Northern Shoveler 
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 2 PM
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Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio, New Mexico
12-3 2017
Afternoon/Evening Shoot Day Two
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 2 AM
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Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio, New Mexico
12-3 2017
Morning Shoot Day Two
Morning Activity ~ Crane Pools
Morning Light On Sandhill Cranes Leaving the Roost To Feed 
Last of the Sandhill Cranes Leaving the Roost 
Gambel’s Quail Looking For Sky Grain 😉
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 1
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12-2 2017
A Special Place, A Special PresenceNew Equipment Learning Curve
In the End Resulting In Some Nice Flight Sequences & Flight Captures 
Long Tall Drink of Water 
Morning Light 
Before Morning Light 
Gambel’s Quail ~ Male & Female
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 1 / Blind
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12-3 2017
A Special Place, A Special Presence
Images from a two-person blind at the Bosque Bird Watchers RV Park just outside of the Refuge.
European Starlings ~ Non-Native Invasive Species
Blame It On Shakespeare 
Scrub Jay 
Ground Squirrel 
Gambel’s Quail ~ Female 
Gambel’s Quail ~ Male 
Whoops ~ Red-Winged Blackbird, Female ~ Who Knew (Jeff Parker)
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
