Death Valley Morning Light

During a trip to photograph the high contrast dunes in Death Valley, I arrived to find clouds, rain and high winds for three days. Each morning I would head out to the dunes hoping to find some wonderful textured dunes. What actually transpired was three days of overcast skies, soft light and blowing sands. I don't normally shoot color, but each morning this really elegant soft light with a warm glow of tones would rise to east. Hopefully these images express the elegant light of these mornings.

You might say there was a natural collision of circumstances between Jack’s nearly lifelong love of nature, and that of photography. His wondrous journey into nature began when he attended an Outward Bound month-long wilderness course at age 16. At 18, (just over 40 years ago) he picked up his first camera, developed his first B&W print in the darkroom and quickly put his two passions together. In recent years Jack’s photography has been exhibited in Paris, Athens, Berlin, Moscow, and Malaga Spain and domestically in the US and published internationally.