Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes

Mesquite Dunes, Death VAlley, iPhone4

'Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair'.....Khalil Gibran


The Last Pixel Show is planning a destination iPhone Photography Workshop in Death Valley next February. We wil be posting information on TheLastPixelShow.org shortly. We are, however, running a workshop next week in Napa, California with a few spots open. 

Nature

Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley

Yesterday I was up and out at 5AM to start driving to Los Angeles for a few meetings. The sun was just rising and it dawned on me how much I really like being out there in beauty we call Mother Nature.  The best time of day for me - no one awake - no phone calls - just the deafening silence and quiet color. Of course I made a few images but mostly just enjoyed being able to see the day unfold....
 

Death Valley Impression 5

Zabriske Point Sunrise, iPhone4

Death Valley

Mesquite Dunes - Death Valley

Working on several iPhone impressions of Death Valley and other locations...these iPhone images work well as color-scape impressions when printed small on the right substrate....my intent would be to hae several of these impressions in my upcoming show at the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery in Carmel, Indiana. .

Death Valley

Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes

In one of the workshops I attended over the past few years the leader had mentioned making sketches of ideas either on pieces of paper or in some sort of day book. What I realized this morning (and I may have already been aware) is that the iPhone is particularly suited for this - a virtual visual diary of ideas. For me, I get to work out ways to post process with the bonus of getting to think about new ideas for making the actual photograph in the field....whether it be big boy camera or iPhone.

Racetrack Playa

Racetrack Playa, Death Valley

Hipstamatic Image from Racetrack Playa in Death Valley.....

On the Road Again

Sunrise - Badwater Basin - Death Valley

Three hundred miles to go today - overslept and not much time to put much on the blog. Had enough time for this fairly straight image of Badwater Basin captured on the last Death Valley Trip....now to pack, get the free breakfast at the Hampton Inn and move on down the road.

iPhone4
truehdr on tripod
Filterstorm for image management

Death Valley Sunset

Dante's Peak, Death Valley

Iphone TrueHDR capture from last January reprocessed on the iPad 2 using:

Dynamic Light
Iris for Ipad
Filterstorm

Racetrack Playa, Death Valley

'In a little house pictures I keep, many pictures

hanging suspended -- It is not a fixed house,

But behold! it has room enough -- in it,

hundreds and thousands,

all the varieties'...........Walt Whitman  

Thanks to David Reinfeld for the inspiration for this image and to Lori Rotenberk for the Whitman quote.