“This world was not meant for camera lenses in the way that it was meant for eyes. With enough skill, enough technology, the right photographer can produce wonderful results, but there is an ease with which the gaze meets the visible world and wanders through it, an ease with which no technical solution can compete.”
– From Dougald Hine, Writer’s Diary, January 19, 2026.1
I’ve been reminiscing about my life, and in particular when my wife and I travelled through many of the National Parks of the American West. We visited Death Valley at least twice. One time we stayed overnight in a hotel inside the Park to experience the dark skies (awesome), and the other time in a nearby town.
Of course we took many photographs, but they could not convey the sense of the immensity of Death Valley, or the beauty of the multicolored rock walls. These personal experiences live in my memory.
Death Valley
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