Artists Drive/Artist's Palette - Death Valley NP (Part 4)

After CES Las Vegas in January (photos here), I vacationed a bit. One of the places I went to is Death Valley National Park. I visited the park January 15th through the 16th in 2018 and took many photos. I split the photos from the park into 11 parts. The cellphone photos I shot can be viewed here.

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This is part 4. Photos are from Artists Drive and Artist's Palette in Death Valley National Park.

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 19' 51" N 116° 49' 37" W  

Black and white process of the photo above. 

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 19' 57" N 116° 48' 21" W 

 Black and white process of the photo above.

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 19' 57" N 116° 48' 13" W 

Black and white process of the photo above. 

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 19' 58" N 116° 49' 10" W 

 Black and white process of the photo above.

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 19' 57" N 116° 48' 10" W 

Black and white process of the photo above. 

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 21' 26" N 116° 47' 48" W 

 Black and white process of the photo above.

Scenery from Artist's Palette.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 21' 49" N 116° 48' 09" W 

Black and white process of the photo above. 

Scenery from Artist's Palette.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 21' 49" N 116° 48' 10" W 

 Black and white process of the photo above.

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 22' 55" N 116° 49' 18" W 

Black and white process of the photo above. 

Scenery from Artists Drive.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 22' 55" N 116° 49' 18" W 

Black and white process of the photo above.

This is all the photos for today. Next time I have photos from Golden Canyon parking lot and Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley National Park. I hope you have enjoyed the photos! Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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Artists Palette/Artist Drive - Death Valley National Park (Part 34)

At the end of November last year (2012), I took a trip to Death Valley National Park. This is the second trip there in my life. The 1st time I went, I was still a little kid, and I didn't start taking photos yet. This time, I have a pro camera and I am ready to shoot the scenery. Death Valley National Park is known for its "out of this world" scenery, UFO sightings, and many other things. The desert is a very mysterious and beautiful place. In this chain of blog posts, I will be showing you mainly photos of Death Valley National Park, but also photos from surrounding areas like The Mojave Desert, Alabama Hills, and Rhyolite Ghost Town. I have picked out over 400 photos from my trip to show you guys and I will be dividing them into many blog posts. Unlike blog  post chains before, I obviously can't put a link of ever blog post on every single blog post, so instead, I will do the same thing I did for my Yellowstone National Park photos before, by sticking a link of the Next and Previous post on each blog post instead.

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Today I show the last of the photos from Artist Drive and Artists Palette. Also, here is my intro to Artists Palette again for those of you who missed it. Artists Palette is famous for its colorful rocks caused by chemical reactions of the mineral rich soil. Definitely visit the area as the scenery is very beautiful and you don't really have to hike a lot. To get there, you take Artist Drive, which is a one way paved road. Here are the photos for today.

Moon rising over Artists Palette.  

Colorful mountains in Artists Palette.  

Scenery 

 The moon high in the sky

HDR of the hills. Notice the colors and the shadows of the photographers. See if you can spot me. :P 

HDR of the colorful rocks. The shadow is me.  

 HDR of the colorful rocks of Artists Palette.

Many dry water formations can be seen through Death Valley National Park as the area used to be a huge lake before climate changes lead to desertification of the area.  

HDR Composition 

 HDR Composition

More scenery as the sun was setting.  

HDR Sunset 

One more sunset photo before exiting Artist Drive. 

These are all the photos for today! Next time, I will continue with photos from near Furnace Creek and Furnace Creek itself. They are mostly sunset and night photos. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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Possible UFO Sighting - Artists Palette/Artist Drive - Death Valley National Park (Part 25)

At the end of November last year (2012), I took a trip to Death Valley National Park. This is the second trip there in my life. The 1st time I went, I was still a little kid, and I didn't start taking photos yet. This time, I have a pro camera and I am ready to shoot the scenery. Death Valley National Park is known for its "out of this world" scenery, UFO sightings, and many other things. The desert is a very mysterious and beautiful place. In this chain of blog posts, I will be showing you mainly photos of Death Valley National Park, but also photos from surrounding areas like The Mojave Desert, Alabama Hills, and Rhyolite Ghost Town. I have picked out over 400 photos from my trip to show you guys and I will be dividing them into many blog posts. Unlike blog  post chains before, I obviously can't put a link of ever blog post on every single blog post, so instead, I will do the same thing I did for my Yellowstone National Park photos before, by sticking a link of the Next and Previous post on each blog post instead.

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing. To see my best work from Death Valley National Park, use this link. To see all of the photos from my Death Valley National Park trip use this link.

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Today, I have 4 photos of Artist's Palette Drive at night. I went there after sunset because I originally planned that in the trip that day but I took a bit long elsewhere so it was night when I got there. I later went back the next day to get a better view during the day. I have a tripod, a good camera, so the low lighting isn't much of an issue because I can just lengthen the exposure to compensate.

Anyways, before I continue with the photos for today, I want to tell you my experience that night with a potential UFO sighting! Yes a UFO sighting, and no I am not lying. Death Valley National Park is known for its UFO sightings. So here is what happened. The last image in this blog post was taken when I saw the UFO. The photo (according to the photo EXIF data) was taken at 5:24 PM at 11/22/2012 (not sure if I configured the daylight savings setting correctly so it could be +/- an hour). Here is what happened. I saw a great view and told my dad to stop. I set up my camera and tripod and some calculations told me the photo will take 3.5 minutes (I went 3 minutes 39 seconds just to be on the safe side). So I started the exposure and I noticed the stars were coming out so I looked around and tried to see if I can spot any constellations. When I looked up, I noticed that a few "stars" were moving faster than what stars normally move at, plus they were moving in the opposite direction of what other stars are moving! The thought of an airplane did occur, but those star were not flashing, very bright, and well moving not as fast as an airplane. Before I knew it, one of the "stars" changed direction moving in a triangular formation and then I noticed a few other "bright stars" near it started moving awkwardly too. I thought I must be sleepy and my eyes were playing tricks on me so I called my mom out. She looked for a while and told me she sees the awkward movements too... So after a minute when I called my dad out, the "stars" were in a very different arrangement from when I first saw them, but they all stopped moving. Then it was about 3 minutes. I let the exposure run another 40 seconds and I was like I'm getting out of here! Those alien abduction documentaries I watched on TV before started popping up in my head and I totally freaked out... Now I kind of wish I boosted the ISO and took a shot in the general direction but back then I was so freaked out I left. The UFO wasn't in my camera's frame for the long exposure BTW. Kind of regret it now, but anyways, this is my story.

When I got there, the sun was still setting. I sure made my trip in Natural Bridge Canyon short. Kind of planned it out. I knew I still wanted to go here, so I rushed myself at Natural Bridge Canyon.  

 A car driving by made a streak of light in my long exposure. 

Another shot with no cars making streaks in my photo. 

This was the photo I was taking when I saw the possible UFO sighting (see my story above). I don't know if it is just me, but it seems that there could have been electromagnetic interference in the area. I have taken exposures past 3 minutes before. A lot more noise (when I viewed it at 100%) than photos I've taken before. Considering how cold it was outside, my ISO at the lowest, the noise level should be a lot lower! So pretty much after that encounter with the possible UFO I got so freaked out I told my dad to drive the heck out of there. I didn't take any more photos that night after that. 

These are all the photos for today! I hope you have enjoyed viewing them and my story on my possible UFO sighting. Next time I have photos from Death Valley Junction Historic District and photos of the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel (would not recommend staying there unless you desperately have to). Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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