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King Joshua
King Joshua

A massive Joshua Tree stands alone with its subjects looking on in the background.

After expending most of vacation time shooting around the Southwest, I found myself with a new moon and no place to go.
I have been ignoring JT as of late because it's been reserved for filler and last weekend was the perfect time to scout the Joshua Trees in the monument. I started at 3pm sunday after peak heat which was 95 degrees, the temperature was a great deterrent for most tourist and that was apparent when I arrived, the place was a ghost town. The lack of people in the park was the perfect opportunity to scout out the best Trees found in the park, After 4 hours of walking and driving, mostly driving at around ten mph looking at every possible location then disembarking to tag each tree at it's actual location. All in all I tagged 32 interesting specimens then waited to see what the night sky would bring. I still needed a location for my sunset shot, Keys view was out of the question, the sky was clear to the west but there where some nice clouds lingering to the east so I decided to head over to see what was going on at the ancient juniper in the Jumbo Rocks campground. As I suspected, not a soul around. Perfect. I had a semi-epic sunset there and the spent the rest of my remaining time shooting the specimens I had found during the day until rain ended my fun and blotted out the Milky Way. Next time I go to JT I will be able to go directly to each tree. This is the one tree that really stood out of the bunch its massive umbrella truly dwarfed any other found. Hope you like it. :)

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Taken on: July 23, 2017
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Camera: Canon EOS 6D, 25 sec, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
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ISO: 1600
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Manual
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.8 (Macintosh)
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