Death Valley National Park, CA
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Stars circle over Death Valley National Park's Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the United States at 282 feet below sea level. The nearly cloudless November sky glows with light pollution from Las Vegas, only 200 miles away.
A particularly straight section of Badwater Road invites you to see where it ends. Foothills of the Eastern Sierras follow on both sides.
Two long-abandoned steel tanks stoically lord over Badwater Basin and the Devil's Golf Course along West Side Road in Death Valley National Park.
The gnarled remains of a tree reach in vain from the hard, arid ground in Death Valley National Park.
Sharp salt formations create a jagged landscape across Devil's Golf Course in Death Valley National Park.
The moon rises over part of the Artist's Palette area in Death Valley National Park.
Jagged edged clay heaves up from the ground in Death Valley National Park.
Hardened clay, shaped by erosion, emerges from the sand in formations resembling cells.
The moon rises over leafless brush in Death Valley National Park.
A single electrical wire slices the sky in two in Death Valley National Park.
Soft dawn light illuminates Zabriskie Point, one of Death Valley National Park's most recognizable rock formations.
The finished surface flakes off of its underlying concrete in an abandoned building in Rhyolite, a town just outside of Death Valley National Park.
Thousands of years of wind and water peel away the rock in Golden Canyon, revealing striations older than time in Death Valley National Park.
A photographer stands alone at the crest of a sand dune near Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park.
The soft dawn and mountains are reflected in a rare water pool at Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the continental United States, in Death Valley National Park.
