This week I want to take you back to one of my favourite places from our last snowbird season in the American Southwest: The Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
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I truly had no idea that Nevada was so incredibly beautiful until I was invited there by a reader of this very blog who owns a small RV park near the Valley of Fire.
If ever I’ve been to a place that made me think I could be happy photographing in one location forever, it is here. In fact, Ray and I are planning on going back for a month this fall.
Today’s photos show some of the smaller details: the lines, textures, and colours in the rock. The grand vistas were spectacular, but it is these small details, the different colours and textures that change with every footstep, that have me mesmerized in this place.
If you missed my posts about this area earlier this year, you can catch up and see some of the larger vistas here.
I love these more intimate views Anne.
Thank you very much Mark, I appreciate it.
Stunning! Don’t you just love it when you can get lost in a place?
Hey GypsyNesters! Great to see you again. Yes I think the best places are indeed the ones you get lost in, especially when you get lost because you’re admiring the beauty 🙂 Thanks for your visit and comments.
Nice Anne – I love VOF as well!
Thank you so much Russ! Maybe we can meet up there sometime! I’m planning on going back in the fall.
These are my kind of image and would make great textures for overlays. But I like them as is, the details are magnificent.
Thank you very much Lee. I haven’t tried the texture overlay thing very much, but I think you’re right, these photos make good candidates. Thanks for the idea.
Gorgeous!
Thank you very much Laurie!
It certainly lives up to its name…talk about rich oranges and reds!
That it does! Purple and yellow too! Thanks for your visit and comments, much appreciated.
Anne, these photographs are so luxurious, so richly textured I feel as though I could reach out and touch them. Incredible!
Thank you so much Maria! I really appreciate your visit and comments.
Lovely colors, textures and details Anne! 🙂
Thank you very much Rachel!
Yes, Valley of Fire is quite impressive and you captured it well!
I downloaded your latest book from Amazon….thanks so much. I left a comment there as Colorful Girl:) A very informative and well written book.
Hi Cynthia, Thank you very much for leaving a review of my eBook on Amazon. I really appreciate the time you took to do that.
Hi Anne,
Many thanks for each of the photographs you made in such lovely places!
I have never in my life seen such beauty in rocks.
Thank you very much for the kind comment Vasiliy. There are amazing rock formations all over the American southwest, but this place in particular has the most vivid colours in the rock. I really appreciate your visit and comments.