Picture: Crushed rock due to mechanical weathering, near Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California
While talking with a friend today, he reminded me that it had been almost exactly a year since we were in Death Valley. Like so many others, we were caught in the spring wildflower bloom fever that made national news headlines. But as myself and several other photographers have commented on in the past, “You can really only have so many images of little yellow flowers…”
This is one of the ‘different’ images that made this trip memorable. Literally within weeks of my return, a client request came in for a geology textbook illustration, and one of the specs was for Mechanical Weathering, and in this case, weathering caused by repeated exposure to heat and cold. I sent in this one image – a photo that I took by chance while walking back to my truck – and this was the one they selected for use in the book.
See more of my Death Valley images in my online picture gallery.
Congrats on the random luck. The textbook market has eluded me so far. Though if you were at Anza Borrego last year, I’m not sure you could have had enough yellow flower images. Amazing. I wish I had shot more images. Chalk another one up to noobish mistakes. I didn’t bother with Death Valley.