"Meditations" By Robert Park http://www.robert-park.com

"Meditations" By Robert Park http://www.robert-park.com, a photo by Robert Park Photography on Flickr.

"Meditations" By Robert Park http://www.robert-park.com

"Night Crawler" Death Valley National Park,California By Robert Parkhttp://www.robert-park.com

"Night Crawler" Death Valley National Park,California By Robert Park http://www.robert-park.com, a photo by Robert Park Photography on Flickr.

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"Night Crawler" Death Valley National Park,California By Robert Park http://www.robert-park.com

The playa is in the small Racetrack Valley endorheic basin between the Cottonwood Mountains on the east and Nelson Range to the west. During periods of heavy rain, water washes down from the mountains onto the playa, forming a shallow, short-lived endorheic lake. Under the hot desert sun the thin veneer of water quickly evaporates leaving behind a surface layer of soft slick mud. As the mud dries it shrinks and cracks into a mosaic pattern of interlocking polygons. The shape of the shallow hydrocarbon lake Ontario Lacus on Saturn’s moon Titan has been compared to that of Racetrack Playa. The Racetrack is a unique attraction of Death Valley National Park that not many park visitors get to see. It’s a dry lakebed in a very remote and beautiful area. On the north end of the lakebed is a rock formation known as the grandstands. Rocks from the grandstands and other nearby formations break off and fall onto the lake. There, they perform feats that make this remote playa world-famous. The evidence that they move is the trails they leave behind them as they scoot around the lake. You ’ll find a rock sitting innocently anywhere on the playa — from next to the grandstand to the far southern edge — and behind it will be a trail, from the rock sliding across the fine clay surface of the lakebed. They move! But after all these years, a hundred or more since this phenomenon was brought to the attention of naturalists studying Death Valley, no one has ever seen them move. These rocks aren’t boulders; most are perhaps a foot or so tall, but can still weigh a lot and are not easy to lift.Location The Racetrack Death Valley National Park, California
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"Spider Rock"By Robert Park http://www.robert-park.com

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Canyon De Chelly, Arizona

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Rose Bud is an abstract impression of the delicate flower buds of a rose found in Lower Antelope Canyon.

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This incredible canyon has been created over many thousands of years by the relentless forces of water and wind, slowly carving and sculpting the sandstone into forms, textures, and shapes which we observe today.
The views in Antelope Canyon change constantly as the sun moves across the sky, filtering lights softly across the stone walls. These ever-moving sun angles bounce light back and forth across the narrow canyon's walls, creating a dazzling display of color, light, and shadow that reveals forms and figures throughout the day.
Rose Bud is an abstract impression of the delicate flower buds of a rose found in Lower Antelope Canyon.

"Emerald Garden" - A Dreamy Image at Punchbowl Falls in The Columbia Gorge, OR

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Emerald Garden is a dreamy image of Punchbowl Falls. The falls "are located in a very remote and deep gorge that is filled with snow melt waters coming from Mount Hood in the Cascade Range. This image was captured in early summer using an exposure lasting nearly four minutes, which created an ethereal smooth glow to the water that trickled away from the falls. Located at Punchbowl Falls Oregon© Robert Park www.robert-park.com/

"Emergence" sunrise sky with mesas and buttes rising on the horizon Antelope Canyon, Arizona

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 "Emergence"
The canyon’s shadowy walls combine with beams of sunlight that penetrate the canyon and often create scenes of unbelievable and surreal natural beauty. As the day goes on, changing light angles create a kaleidoscope of patterns,abstract scenes and colors. This area of Antelope reminds me of a sunrise sky with mesas and buttes rising on the horizon with the suns rays.Located at Navajo Nation Antelope Canyon, Arizona. © Robert Park www.robert-park.com/

"Dawn of Time" Death Valley National Park, California."By Robert Park

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Dawn of Time was captured on the 1st of January 2010 as a winter storm cleared leaving behind trace amounts of water in the Bad Water Basin of Death Valley. It was taken on one of my ritualistic treks to Death Valley for New Years. Dawn of Time was conceived several years prior to its actual creation; however, I had to wait for the right conditions in order to capture it. On my New Years 2010 trip to Death Valley, I had waited several days for a storm to clear that allowed the shallow lake you see in the image to form. I needed to have a smooth wind-free morning, so the lake would be like glass and give the reflection that I had pre-visualized. On the last day of my trip the storms cleared and the sunrise was spectacular with pink ribbons running across the sky, casting beautiful pink and magenta hues on the foreground and illuminating the Panamint Mountains as the sun came over the horizon. I positioned myself where the water recedes allowing the geometrical forms of the salt pan to poke through the shoreline of the shallow lake. Finally, I had the proper conditions that would give me the color, values, contrasts, and drama that I required in my pre-visualized image. Location: Bad Water Salt Flats in Death Valley National Park, California. © RobertPark www.robert-park.com/