Moving Rock, Racetrack Playa, Death Valley NP, CA, USA, 2014.  

Death Valley is one of my most favorite national parks.  Of the various locations within this park, I love the Racetrack Playa.  I have been there twice and this image came about during my second visit.  From a paved road, it is a hard 2+ hours of rough unpaved road to get there.  A serious workout for your car’s suspension.  The rewards are well worth it.  As a landscape photographer, although we reached there in the afternoon, I insisted that we wait until the sun sets, so that I can get some cool photographs.  The hard part is that once the sun sets, the return journey becomes all the more difficult, given that it turns pitch dark.  Along the way, we stopped a few times to enjoy the starry night with no light pollution.

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