Thursday's Task - 01/28/2021

Today's task is to provide an image or images of Valley of Fire State Park in NV. This an area of beautiful lines, spectacular colors, small caves, arches, grand landscapes, and wonderful abstracts. I have spent several visits there and I plan to go there again.

Pink/Kaolin Canyon looking up from the side.


Complex arches on the way to Crazy Hill.



Approaching storm at he Wave.



Windstone Cave. I had the GPS coordinates for this location and was standing within a few feet of it but still couldn't find it because it was too diminutive. When I finally found It, had to crawl into it to get this image.



Fire Canyon and Silica Dome.

Great set Douglas. I made one brief stop there on my way home from Grand Canyon a few years back. This is the only one I could find.

A few more from Valley of Fire

One of my favorite places

I presume that most will post the primary landmarks so I will focus on my favorite type of shot - close in work with some of the visual delights in Kaolin Wash:

AlanLichty said:

One of my favorite places

I presume that most will post the primary landmarks so I will focus on my favorite type of shot - close in work with some of the visual delights in Kaolin Wash:

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Beautiful, Alan!

Alas, I only have the standard Fire Wave (which was quite underwhelming in size.....). I've only been there once and I'd forgotten about Windstone Cave.

Douglas Sherman said:

Today's task is to provide an image or images of Valley of Fire State Park in NV. This an area of beautiful lines, spectacular colors, small caves, arches, grand landscapes, and wonderful abstracts. I have spent several visits there and I plan to go there again.

Pink/Kaolin Canyon looking up from the side.
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Complex arches on the way to Crazy Hill.
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Approaching storm at he Wave.
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Windstone Cave. I had the GPS coordinates for this location and was standing within a few feet of it but still couldn't find it because it was too diminutive. When I finally found It, had to crawl into it to get this image.
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Fire Canyon and Silica Dome.
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Great photos Doug! I especially like your first one. But all of them are really well done.

Very nice images. Love your set Doug, esp. the first and second. The set from Alan are very nice as well focusing on subtle colors and textures. Hard acts to follow. I am trying avoid duplications, so here is my contribution.

Never been, but you guys are making a strong case for a visit. Your closeups are a nice contrast Alan.

I've never been there for any serious photography, but came home from VOF with this from a weekend of tooling around with the Sportsmobile club. I kinda need to address that place, but I'll be happy for a while just viewing Douglas's and the others fine pics here.

I spent a lot of time in Valley of Fire back when my daughter lived in Las Vegas. I was in there at least once a month for a few years. It was always a shock because I would be in Las Vegas where you are just packed like sardines in a can, and then you drive 40 mins to Valley of Fire and there is almost no one there. It was a great feeling to be able to so quickly get away from the city.

As to Windstone Cave, I remember the first time I found it and I was so shocked, because you do have to actually crawl up in this little 3 foot high cave. Trying to set up a tripod in there was crazy for sure. But it was really fun to find. Now unfortunately I do have some photos from VoF on a local backup, but the hard drives with photos from Windcave are locked away for now.

So here is an assortment from VoF in no particular order.

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Beautiful images everyone, and makes me realize that I need to go there. LOL

My meager offerings from a whistle stop, mid day, hard sun.
So it was all about the petroglyphs
We were on our way to Toroweap & had to make it to St. George, UT

Here are a few...

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I've never been there, but what a collection, with some pretty powerful and beautiful images here. Thanks for the visit.

Bart