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Kee Woo Rhee
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Badwater basin seems to have more roughed surface than last year. It is not really easy to meet a good sunrise nor sunset.
Here I am presenting one chocolate color scene at dusk.
Thanks for looking. Have a wonderful weekend.

Kee

Mar 17, 2013 at 08:46 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Badwater at Dusk

You have done a nice job of capturing the way it was, not the way you wanted it to be.

I cannot tell where this was taken. Is this near the parking lot and facing north or almost across the flats and facing south?

BTW, last winter I also had issues finding clean, white salt formations. I had to walk out onto the basin for over 2 miles. Some photographers walked almost entirely across the basin. I believe that is about 5 miles.

Mar 17, 2013 at 09:54 AM

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Hey Kee,

Very nice clouds you had in that shot. There is still some very good surface out there, and you don't have to hike 2 miles out there to find it, if you walk more than 10 minutes you have gone too far. The next time you go out to DV to shoot let me know I will let you know how to find it.

Jim

Mar 17, 2013 at 12:27 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Badwater at Dusk

Hello Jim,

You are really kind and wonderful person. Next time when I go to DV, surely I will contact you.
The Badwater basin area has so much rough and erupted salt flat surfaces.. looking very ugly now.
Almost everywhere. Looks like this..
Hand held shot.. mind..

Kee

(ps: I am afraid that this Badwater Basin salt flat will turn into mud resembling the Devil’s Golf Course section ultimately)

Edited on Mar 18, 2013 at 08:34 AM · View previous versions

Mar 18, 2013 at 07:51 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Badwater at Dusk

Hello Camperjim,

I parked the car a few hundred feet beyond the visitor's parking lot coming from Furnace Creek. This way you walk less to the basin.
The shot I posted is facing away from where sun rises.. so northerly view? When you look at the posted photo, the visitor's parking lot is on your right.

Thanks again.

Kee

Mar 18, 2013 at 08:13 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Badwater at Dusk

Kee,
I know that area. I avoided it last year for the same reason. It looked muddy and more like dirt clods than what I wanted. I would not be too concerned about Badwater turning into a Devil's golf course. The entire Badwater Basin and salt flats further to the north seem to change constantly. Certainly there can be substantial changes with the seasons and after any rain. Even without rain, I saw rapid changes in some areas. There is a lot of underground water and the water table seems to go up and down for no apparent reason. I saw changes occur as I was watching. Several times I went back to an area I had shot the day before and found the formations had been substantially altered. I saw areas that changed from seaping water, to dried mud flats to salt flat with strange "crop" circles, to dirty polygons and to clean salt polygons. It was truly weird and I walked the salt flats by the mile almost every evening for a couple of weeks. I loved the variety and changing appearances of the salt flats....and the dunes....and everything else in DEVA.

Maybe your suspicions will prove correct, but there are a lot of changes on a constant basis.
Jim

Mar 18, 2013 at 08:40 AM


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