I guess if there's one single piece of advice I'd give other photographers it's the old line we shout during scary movies, ‘Look behind you!'. The road to the Artist's Palette is known as Artist's Drive. It's a one-way road. Most of us drive giving more attention to what's in front of us, glancing in the rear view mirror from time-to-time to see what's happening on the road behind us. And that was how I first spotted the view above, in my rear view mirror, as I was headed back to Route 178; the main road running south from furnace Creek past Badwaterto Shoshone.
This is a much more arresting sight than one sees when entering the loop of road that is Artist's Drive. I'm not sure who chose which direction the traffic should flow in. Maybe the way it flows gives one a better view of the Artist's Palette formations. Maybe it's because there's nowhere to pull off the road here – I had to park once out of the canyon and hike back to get this shot. The thing is, as the road winds out of the canyon you could easily blink and miss seeing this view!
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Production Data
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Lens: Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM AF Lens (B&H)
Processing: Lightroom 3.6
Processing: photomatix 4.02
Processing: Photoshop CS5
Processing: Topaz Adjust 5
