The Landscape As Abstract

Painterly lines and circles on Badwater Basin, framed with the alluvial fans of the Panamint Range and an edge of the Black Mountains. Seen from Dante's View, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.

In my first post from our 2022 Death Valley Trip, I mentioned how at Death Valley, the landscape itself is the abstract. I found the best way to represent this was with the photos that I made from up high, at Dante’s View and Dante Peak*. A couple other locations and the views they offered allowed for similar “abstractions”.

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