Re: 2019 desert wildflower bloom
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:57 pm
From your pictures Maia, I recognized after driving back north on Elkhorn from Hurricane you took the dirt road to canyon G that last year I used to access nearby canyon H climbing high up the ridge. Canyon H is the one with an old gated decaying 4wd bulldozed road that goes all the way up along its wash at canyon bottom all the way to the top of the ridge line and suspect it was the one the social media God Spilled the Paint (ridiculously over-saturated haha) was made. There are better canyons and will see what this spring serves up. Also see you went up canyon F that is the one with the steep 2 track dirt road you hiked. That has a particularly nice slope a ways up I am likely to visit on an afternoon. Am curious if the the zoo up canyon J that thousands hiked up into in 2017 has now been blocked as it is on private inholding lands.
Set for some days down in Carrizo meeting up with an old view camera friend. Looks like timing is about as good as I might expect. Don't expect it to match my 2017 work however there is so much incredible material up in the Temblor badlands labyrinths that being productive ought not be an issue at all, especially with more intimate landscapes. I did see an image showing that huge grape koolaide lake had again made an appearance down south on Soda Lake Road. We'll be disperse camping on obscure dirt roads.
To this point have completed processing 36 images from my two earlier trips to Joshua Tree, Anza Borrego, and Antelope Valley and have several wonderfully colorful images that look awesome on my Dell 24 inch 4k Ultrasharp Dell monitor. Best thus far were screaming orange and yellow poppy/goldfield images from AV.
Set for some days down in Carrizo meeting up with an old view camera friend. Looks like timing is about as good as I might expect. Don't expect it to match my 2017 work however there is so much incredible material up in the Temblor badlands labyrinths that being productive ought not be an issue at all, especially with more intimate landscapes. I did see an image showing that huge grape koolaide lake had again made an appearance down south on Soda Lake Road. We'll be disperse camping on obscure dirt roads.
To this point have completed processing 36 images from my two earlier trips to Joshua Tree, Anza Borrego, and Antelope Valley and have several wonderfully colorful images that look awesome on my Dell 24 inch 4k Ultrasharp Dell monitor. Best thus far were screaming orange and yellow poppy/goldfield images from AV.