I got back form my road trip a couple weeks ago and have been processing images so I 'll start posting in chronological order. It was a tough road trip, really bad weather, to be expected in the spring, but didn't get many opportunities to shoot in great light. I was 0 for 35 on sunrises with any significant color and 1 for 35 on sunsets, which happened on the last day, but I was late getting to the area because I stopped to help a VW van full of hippies who ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere. But can't complain too much, it was great getting out again and I made a point of going to a bunch of places I've never been to so even if the photography wasn't great the hiking and exploring were terrific.
I have been to the Bisti area few times so I decided to try some other areas in the general vicinity. The areas we visited were filled with great sandstone formations, petrified trees and stumps, and two amateur fossil hunters even showed us some turtle shell fossils they found protruding out of the base of a hoodoo [left in place of course].
The weather was overcast skies most of the time, sporadic rain, and SUSTAINED 50 mph winds gusting to 70 mph - for 10 hours. The next day it snowed. This photo was from the top of a wash and shows the conditions pretty well, near sunset there was a brief lull and you could see the dust storm had enveloped the area to a height of about 300 feet. Click the link for the set of images from this area. The link has a larger version of this. I'd appreciate any critiques you may have.
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2 repliesI have been to the Bisti area few times so I decided to try some other areas in the general vicinity. The areas we visited were filled with great sandstone formations, petrified trees and stumps, and two amateur fossil hunters even showed us some turtle shell fossils they found protruding out of the base of a hoodoo [left in place of course].
The weather was overcast skies most of the time, sporadic rain, and SUSTAINED 50 mph winds gusting to 70 mph - for 10 hours. The next day it snowed. This photo was from the top of a wash and shows the conditions pretty well, near sunset there was a brief lull and you could see the dust storm had enveloped the area to a height of about 300 feet. Click the link for the set of images from this area. The link has a larger version of this. I'd appreciate any critiques you may have.
http://www.frickephotography.com/gallery/nmbadlands/
"Cracked Earth" is my favorite. The bentonite rich clay and coal weather into such interesting landforms.