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Manic_Skafe

Great work - the sky in all three shots has this surreal and breathtaking quality to it.

Thanks for sharing.

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PonyPotato

I really love the very "summery" looking sky in contrast with the snow.

I also really like the composition of these shots. You do a great job of choosing what to shoot and where to put it in your frame.

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JumpinJesus

Snow in the desert - even if it is high desert - just doesn't make sense to me.

Nice shots as always, fnaqzna.

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im2smrt4u

Wow! Where did you take those? Awesome pictures!

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shesus

Great composition. I'd never believe snow in the desert, not the usual shots.

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fnaqzna

Thanks everyone. These were taken east of Lake Isabella, near Walker Pass... California.

Edit... here's one more.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotdoubledot/2223086465/" title="Hidden Desert by .: sandman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2223086465_203e9d0071.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Hidden Desert" /></a>

xepherys

I used to think the same thing. It's a precipitation thing. Did you know that there are areas of the ocean that are classified as desert? Crazy!

Anyways, awesome pics!

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intecel

I'm curious what kind of post-processing you do to those pictures?

fnaqzna

Adjustments to white balance, contrast, luminosity, saturation... the standard tricks.

Gotta say though... a lot of that blue sky is the result of the lens, a Tokina 12-24mm f/4. It makes the sky pop.

Starkizzer

I miss seeing joshua trees! Since moving to school I don't get to see them much anymore and when I do go home there are so many damn housing tracks popping up that the joshua trees are disappearing.

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fnaqzna

I got out again today... saw a burro. Can't remember the last one I saw in the wild.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotdoubledot/2237416029/" title="Wild Burro by .: sandman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/2237416029_03721727c7.jpg" width="500" height="358" alt="Wild Burro" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotdoubledot/2237391067/" title="Desert Fence by .: sandman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/2237391067_19e1523a40_b.jpg" width="1024" height="678" alt="Desert Fence" /></a>

PonyPotato

For being a wild burro, that guy's in really good shape. Good weight, good feet. I'm surprised.

I also really like the fence shot. There's no landscape even remotely like that in Ohio, so your photos are really nice to look at.

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troit

I really need to move out of the city...

Your pictures always remind me of a TV show I've begun to watch with some frequency over the past year: http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/3242/ep:1705

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