Dirt, Clouds, Et Cetera

[charlie]

A wide view.

[armando_m]

Very peaceful and vast place

[Frank Fremerey]

I imagine 30.000 cattle greening this place and you come back to take a shot from the same spot in 10 years: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=allan+savory+

[Anirban Halder]

Charlie - this is just beautiful! Is it Death Valley? I would love to see a high-res version if hosted somewhere.

[charlie]

Frank, I would certainly not want to be one of those 30,000 cattle  :-)

Anirban, it is, and thank you. You can right click and view in a new tab to see an 1860px version of it.

More dirt clouds.

[Jørgen Ramskov]

I like that composition and clean PP.

[pluton]

For me, Death Valley is a somewhat familiar subject, but you have shown your own unique view of it. I like the extreme 'big sky' composition of the first shot, and the dust clouds are intriguing in the second. Were the dust clouds created by vehicles?

Frank, Mr. Savory's ideas are fascinating and invite more investigation. Death Valley(and the greater Mojave and Great Basin deserts) are known to have been grassland as recently as 10 or 12 thousand yeas ago. The story is that it was distinctly cooler and wetter due to an Ice Age, and that Death Valley was mostly filled by a large terminal lake called Ancient Lake Manly.
I don't know that there is any hope of re-greening an area that gets 5cm of rain per year. 

[charlie]

Thank you both!
Yes, Death Valley is certainly a popular place among the photography communities, and for good reason.

Here is another big sky view with its own little dust cloud, the patterns throughout the mountains were the draw to this scene. 

[pluton]

Whether the color palette is your invention, or dictated by the scene, it is a distinct style and curiously pleasant to look at.  An antidote to the ever-present temptation towards super saturation.

[Wannabebetter]

...An antidote to the ever-present temptation towards super saturation.

AMEN!

[Frank Fremerey]

I am not joking and these guys are certainly< not joking: http://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/management/upload/GMP_001.pdf

[Frank Fremerey]

PS: your series is first class photographically.

[charlie]

Keith, the color was certainly dictated by the scene though I may have helped it along 
Frank, I know you aren't joking. I've seen your mentions of cattle greening in past threads, and thank you. That was an interesting article though I did not manage to read all 123 pages of it 

[Frank Fremerey]

In the last picture I feel we left earth and visited another planet. Wow.

cattle greening works between 2 inches and 200 inches of rain per year. There are in fact spots on earth which
receive less rain...

[charlie]

Yes, this is why I have a fondness for deserts, the otherworldly scenes that exist in them.