Eastern Sierra, Death Valley & Arizona Photography Trip, February-March 2021

This is a set of image galleries from a 3+ week trip in the Starr van to the southwest U.S. The trip's impetus was a 5 day Marc Adamus photography workshop to California's Eastern Sierra & Death Valley that I signed up for last Spring. I had attended this same workshop in 2013 and later visited the region a couple more times. It was starting to feel a little stale and therefore was looking for some fresh inspiration. And Marc is a superb photographer and weather expert, so I was sure to pick up more than just new location knowledge. In addition, at the last moment, Marc announced another edition of the same workshop starting a week after the end of the first, having an additional 3 days scheduled for shooting wildflowers further south. I was able to combine the two, together with the intervening week, for a total of nearly a month of exploring & shooting.

I am so pleased that the trip occurred since, upon returning home to Bend, I had a previously-scheduled shoulder rotator cuff surgery. This will curtail further adventures for a few months and I'll have to bask in this trip's memories for awhile.

The trip entailed a lengthy, serpentine route, with me often visiting a location multiple times, either within a workshop or on my own. Therefore the below galleries are not arranged chronologically but rather geographically, primarily north to south. Each gallery also goes into more detail about the locations visited. And the first gallery, "Favorites", pulls together my favorite images from the trip.