I don't think that I've seen photos of this place before, and given the state of the access road, I'm not surprised!
This was discovered on one of those "I wonder what's up that road?" side trips. The 4WD road was so rough, we couldn't reasonably back down it, so we cleared the rocks that had fallen onto the road and committed to getting over the steepest hill. When we crested the top, this (and more) is what we found!
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These renovated kilns like at an elevation of nearly 6900 feet in the Panamint Mountains in California. The last 2 miles of unpaved road to this spot is often covered with snow during the months when most people visit the area.
I've been working on variations on this shot for a few years (this is from 2008), but I didn't have a wide enough lens or enough lights to pull off the full concept I wanted to shoot.
I'm trying to decide whether to go here next week, but it's snowing now at this site, with the snow level down at 3700 feet. It's probably best to wait a month or two when the snow is off the dirt road to this site.
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It's amazing how many things miners found to pull out of the ground in Death Valley's 3.4 million acres.
This site is mentioned at the bottom of page 132 of my 320-page guidebook "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South".
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I've been wanting to light paint this truck for a while, and earlier this month I finally got around to it.
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