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trona milky way 2949

            Our intension was to shoot the Milky Way in Joshua Tree National Park (2 hours away), but the park was unexpectedly closed due to the government shut down, so we went to our back-up plan which was a 3 hour drive to the Trona Pinnacles.  

With great friends Jan, Tom and Cory, we had a fun day and night exploring and photographing the interesting geological formations.  The wind was blowing like crazy the whole time, so it was very challenging.  The lights on the horizon are probably from Victorville, Ca which is about 100 miles due south.

The Trona Pinnacles is one of the most unusual geological features in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side. Thanks to Wikipedia for the info...

Taken in: United States / California / San Bernardino (show map)

Taken on: October 2, 2013

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D, f/2.8, 30 sec, 20mm, ISO 2500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D
Lens:	EF20mm f/2.8 USM
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	30
Focal Length:	20mm
ISO:	2500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
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