Nature Photographers Network
This is the preserved archive of the original Nature Photographers Network. The community continues at naturephotographers.network.
Forums · RMNP

Dante's View - Death Valley National Park

Discussion

10 replies
Posted by Richard Voninski on November 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Dante's View - Death Valley National Park
Just returned from a week in Death Valley on Thanksgiving Day. I have enough time to start to run the B/W film before hitting the road again. Shot 74 sheets of color. But I'll have to wait to see those. Conditions were amazing. I have only been to DV once before in 1994 and wish I didnt wait this long to return. Here are a couple from the 'soup'.

Interesting thing about this shot is we first saw a tiny rattlesnake and then my mom pointed out a tarantula that was slowly mosy-ing over to my open camera bag. I am still having nightmares thinking of putting on the darkcloth only to find a furry friendly visitor inside. Youch.

RichieV

EbonySV45Te
Nikon 210mm W
Kodak TMAX 100
Posted by Richard Voninski on November 30, 2008 at 4:55 PM
This is the Porter building in Rhyolite, Nevada. Yea, yea i know I am a junkie for old broken stuff.

RichieV

Ebony SV45Te
Nikon 150mm W
Kodak TMAX 100
Posted by Richard Voninski on November 30, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Okay. One more for now. The scanner is still spinning for now.

RichieV

Ebony SV45Te
Nikon 210mm W
Kodak TMAX 100
Posted by Chuck Peacock on November 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM
These are all simply amazing Richie. The texture in all 3 is eye-popping.
Posted by Richard Voninski on November 30, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Volcanic rock on the playa

Ebony SV45Te
Schneider 110mm XL
Kodak TMAX 100
Posted by John Klotz on November 30, 2008 at 9:20 PM
Nice set Ritchie! Keep 'em comin'. I really like # three!
Posted by Richard Voninski on November 30, 2008 at 11:20 PM
What the heck. One more. Now I really do have to pack!! No more film for a few weeks. Sigh.

Death Valley gets on average about 2 inches of rain a year. The night before this shot was taken it rained on us in the campground about 3-4 hours. So they must have gotten about half their yearly supply.

Ebony SV45Te
Nikon 210mm W
Kodak TMAX 100

RichieV
Posted by Kevin Trinkner on December 1, 2008 at 8:06 AM
Nice Richie, I love death valley and I hope to make it back there sometime soon. DV is probably one of my favorite national parks.

Looks like you had some fun shooting.
Posted by Guy Schmickle on December 1, 2008 at 10:48 AM
As mentioned above, the texture and composition in these shots are terrific. I hope you shot that last scene in color as I bet that would be stunning as well.
Posted by Dave Showalter` on December 1, 2008 at 12:18 PM
That's what I'm talkin' about! Classic Richie V. for sure. I like 'em all, but the first and last are fantastic!
Posted by Don Grall on December 1, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Beautiful tonal gradations, exposures, compositions. If Ansel were still alive, he'd be looking over his shoulder.