Photo Observation #11

2. http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/badwater-basin-california/

3. Unreal

4. This is a photo from National Geographic of Badwater Basin in Death Valley. It’s a dry sea of salt below sea level. When I first saw this photo, I actually had trouble grasping the idea that this is actually a place. It’s this sea of white salt, spread as far as you can see, surrounded by mountains. And the sky. The sky is so many colors – from a white and a light blue to a vibrant RED. A red sky – that’s something I have yet to see, and it’s just amazing and awesome and so many things. The red clouds are swirling together with purples and oranges and the blues on the outskirts and the sky just goes on forever, just the ground. The combination of the ground and the sky and mountains creates this otherworldly experience – it honestly DOESN’T seem real. It’s like this uninhabited, magic place. It feels like you could walk forever and never reach any other land besides the here and now of this picture. It’s amazing.

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