By Varina Patel,on February 7th,2012 Here’s a shot from Death Valley National Park. I love shooting by moonlight! The soft glow is incredible –and when you are in a place like this,it’s so hard to pack up and go home! Why not stay just a little bit longer and capture the moonlight on the sand?:) This . . . →Read More:Moon Rise By Varina Patel,on January 31st,2012 This is a shot from Death Valley National Park in California. The salt flats are huge –40 miles long and 5 miles wide –but it’s the tiniest details that grabbed my attention. The largest of these crystals is just three or four millimeters wide. I was waiting for sunset near Badwater,but the . . . →Read More:Salt and Sand By Varina Patel,on January 6th,2012 We had actually planned to photograph the beautiful formations in the Vermillion Cliffs region of Utah on this trip,but the storm front we were expecting stalled out over California. So,we got back into the rental car,and drove West toward Death Valley National Park. We were exhausted (six hours by plane to Las . . . →Read More:Hourglass By Jay Patel,on December 29th,2011 Here is an old photograph from Badwater Basin taken in 2004. This was my first visit to Death Valley…but,I would visit the park each winter for the next 6 years. At this time in my career,I had been shooting with a DSLR for about 2 years. I had learned to recognize . . . →Read More:Badwater Light By Jay Patel,on September 9th,2011 Jay and I will be offering a FREE webinar on shooting Death Valley this coming Sunday. We’d like to invite you to join us! Date:Sunday,Sept 11 Time:2:00 -3:00 PM EDT (UTC−04) Webinar Instructions Meeting Number:571 663 430 Meeting Password:Extremes ——————————————————- To join the online meeting . . . →Read More:FREE Webinar:Photographing Death Valley National Park By Jay Patel,on March 21st,2011 Take a look at this shot from Death Valley National Park in California. What makes it so striking? Well –first off all,orange and blue are complimentary colors –that is,they are located directly across from one another on a color wheel. When complimentary colors are placed side-by-side,they seem to become . . . →Read More:Quick Tips:Complementary Colors By Jay Patel,on August 19th,2010 Price: Free Format: eBook,PDF format,12 pages Size: 15.4MB Requirement: Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 or greater Download Now . . . →Read More:eBook:Death Valley –A Land of Extremes By Jay Patel,on July 12th,2010 So –we’re sitting here at the airport waiting for our flight. The kids are reading books,and Jay and I are enjoying the relative quiet. (Yes –you read that correctly. A crowded airport is quiet…relatively speaking. Have you ever spent 9 days in a car/hotel room/plane with six children? They . . . →Read More:Featured Download:In the Lead | |