http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs43/i/20...tangrypoet.jpg

One of the photos I took of Reno.

look, it's a grasshopper!
http://notinportland.com/images/kg937cgveip9ldm0rtq.jpg

All my cds are together and organized by color, and so are my DVDs, BLU RAY and yes VSH and BETA... lol

to the picture above me.. thats amazing, I love it.

http://fc97.deviantart.com/fs43/i/20...tangrypoet.jpg

My two cats fighting over of dominance of my backpack

I'm not much of a photographer, but I have fun editing photos I've taken.
Here are several pics I took about a year ago after getting a new cam.


1. Closeup of a mask brought back from Africa by a friend, edited in photoshop:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3153/46787511.jpg

2. Closeup of my condenser microphone, edited in photoshop:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3277/55947964.jpg

3. Playing with macro, photo of my mixing board, edited...:
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/268/75026401.jpg

4. Began as a photo of my headphones, turned into something else in photoshop:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5246/98865794.jpg

I got back last night from a three and a half day camping trip out to Death Valley, the lowest and—I think—the hottest place in North America. This was my second time there and I absolutely love this place. It's so big and harsh it just makes you realize how small you are. Anyway, I thought I'd post some of my photos:


Badwater salt flats. 282 feet (86 meters) below sea level. No shade anywhere to be found and a vast white, highly reflective surface all around you. It is freaking hot here.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/badwater.jpg

The path from the road out into the salt flats at Badwater. The white surface you see is not pavement but salt that has been flattened and smoothed by people walking on it.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...water_path.jpg

Dante's View looking down into part of Death Valley. To give you an idea of the scale of the place, look for a thin vertical white line in the lower left of the photo. That line is the path into the salt flats from the previous photo.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...antes_view.jpg

Just a little ways away from Badwater is the Devil's Golf Course which is these lumpy salt formations stretching off into the distance. One of the things that's so neat about this place to me is that you can be standing in a place like this, where it's quite hot, and still see snow up in the mountains.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...golfcourse.jpg

Here are some more of my Death Valley photos (the first set are on the previous page). I figured I'd split them up in a couple of posts to avoid having one monster post full of photos but if a mod wants to merge them that's fine too.


This one is of Ubehebe Crater. Created by an exploding volcano a couple thousand years ago this was believed by the local Shoshone people to be the place where the first humans crawled out of the Earth.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...ebe_crater.jpg

Looking away from Ubehebe Crater you can see the immense field of volcanic ash that still remains from the eruption.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...behebe_ash.jpg

Far from Ubehebe Crater is the Artist's Palette, multi-colored hills that are the product of the different minerals in them.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...s_pallette.jpg

Looking to the left of the Artist's Palette I saw this little canyon. I don't think it has a name but I thought it was cool looking.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...tle_canyon.jpg

And here's my last group of Death Valley photos:


Zabriskie Point. You may have heard of the movie of the same name or more likely the movie's famous soundtrack. Well this is the place the movie gets its name from.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...iski_point.jpg

Zabriskie Point, facing the opposite direction from the previous photo.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...riski_back.jpg

People with cameras out on a ridge by Zabriskie Point.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...ski_people.jpg

At last but not least, an unrelated photo from the Mesquite Sand Dunes, which are little ways from Zabriskie Point, heading in the direction of Ubehebe Crater. The colors didn't come out very good in this photo for some reason but it was a cool place.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...lete/dunes.jpg

Yes! I love the Californian desert, I was there around this time last year. I wasn't in Death Valley, but I still got to go to Joshua Tree. One of the strangest and most beautiful places I have ever been. It's so strange to be able to gaze across Coachella Valley and see snow-capped mountain peaks fifty miles away.

Here's a few pictures from my trip about a year ago.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...5_36207_19.jpg
the park itself is filled with these: massive piles of rocks (presumably sandstone) that litter the landscape like giant piles of gravel. this one had to be at least a hundred feet tall (im sure i climbed it).

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x..._36208_801.jpg
and also filled with these joshua trees. they are the weirdest plant life imaginable and look like a toddler drew them with only the faintest idea of what trees are supposed to look like.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...36210_6570.jpg
this isn't a perspectual illusion -- these palm trees are fucking huge. sixty feet tall at the least and built like a mountain gorilla. there was a bee's nest nearby and i must have gotten stung about six times before i could take a good picture.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...36211_7262.jpg
more plant life -- little cacti that filled massive open areas on the way down into the valley. i was lucky that i got there when these suckers were blooming. i was also unlucky; it was impossible to navigate through the field without getting stung by these fuckers.

That's funny. I was in Joshua Tree around this time last year too, the first week of April actually. Really cool place. Some of those rock piles look like they were drawn by Dr. Seuss.