Mojave Desert Photography: I hope that your New Year's Eve....

...really rocks!

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Mojave Desert Photography: The Shadows Make Me Smile.

More from the Rodman Mountains.

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Mojave Desert Photography: Rodman Mountains.

Hidden canyon.

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Merry Christmas!

Mojave Desert Photography: The Rodman Mountains.

Smokethorn trees.

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Mojave Desert Photography: send in the clouds...

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Mojave Desert Photography: El Paso Mountains...

Solitary Plateau.

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Mojave Desert Photography: El Paso Mountains...

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Mojave Desert Photography: El Paso Mountains.

I look to what lies beyond the black ribbons of macadam.

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Mojave Desert Photography: El Paso Mountains.

I prefer to wander.  If you wish to know where I am these days, I have found my home among the creosote and the Yucca.

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Mojave Desert Photography.....

El Paso Mountains:  study in contrast.

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Mojave Desert: El Paso Mountains...

Here's a craggy rock that I just had to photograph.

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Mojave Desert Photography: Magic Light....

Successful landscape photography requires the patience of the hunter.  The photographer's quarry is sunlight, at just the right angle and intensity.

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Cuddeback Air Field....

Practice-bomb remnants.

Forgotten Mojave: Abandoned Air Strip At Cuddeback Dry Lake...

Said to have been named for a friend of aviatrix Pancho Barnes, Leon Cuddeback, the origins of this former Air Force bombing range and emergency landing site date back to the late 1930's, although the exact date that operations began here seems to be unknown.  Evidently, this now-abandoned air field started out as a civilian airport and was listed as such in a 1937 airport directory.