Death Valley, Dream

Death Valley Dream

'Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter'....John Muir

Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes 13

Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes #13

'Choose only one master - Nature'.......Rembrandt

Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes 2

Death Valley Dunes, Stovepipe Wells

'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher'.....William Wordsworth

I have been to Death Valley on four separate occasions and have made around 5000 images in various locations. All in all the sand dunes are up near the top of my favorite list and also the most difficult. Get there at the wrong time and there are footprints from the many visitors. The best time for me is sunrise, which is even better if a high wind blew away the footprints overnight. If not one needs to get as far out as possible to avoid people and prints...not always as easy as it sounds.....

Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes, Stovepipe Wells

Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes, Stovepipe Wells

'Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually'....Jimi Hendrix

Death Valley - Mesquite Dunes - Detail

Mesquite Dunes - Death Valley

Not much to say today - busy trying to organize leaving for the next month...Las Vegas, Whidbey Island and Denver....found this image of Mesquite Dunes in the archives from November 2009 - my first trip to Death Valley...doing a 'Nature's Peace' show in February with several other artists using images from nature with the focus on National Parks to call attention to the need to expose children to one of our countries finest ideas....check out Ken Burn's National Parks series...great viewing.

that's all folks....

Mesquite Dunes

Mequite Dunes, Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley 

'The human spirit needs places where nature has not been arranged my the hand of man'......Author Unknown

Off to Iceland today....very excited about going back.... 
Image Management:

Canon 5DMKII
24-105M Lens (70MM)
Photoshop CS5
Lightroom 3

Sands of Time..

Mesqutie Dunes, Stovepipe Weels

'Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually'....Jimi Hendrix

Wordpress

Iceland 2010

Today is one of those days when no image seems worthy of a blog post. So here I sit with not one thing in my head...thinking writing might be the way to clear it out and come up with something. In the past this has been dealt with by an image jumping off the page and then adding a favorite quote. Never entered my mind how hard it would be to post an image every day - specifically when I have spent the last few weeks not shooting that much. So I am thinking why not write about what I have working on.

Iceland 2010

Over the past few weeks most of my time has been spent revising/rebuilding my website. I have been struggling for several years with a lack of technical ability on this platform versus my ability to change the site on the fly. Most websites are written in super secret code and  need a webmaster who makes changes and the others that allow simple and quick changes just never appealed to me.  Oh, I wanted a few bells and whistles but in the end it became about the images and my ability to make changes wherever I happen to be in the world. Two weeks ago my friend Jeff Johnson in Florida came up with the perfect solution - WORDPRESS using a PHOTOCRATI THEME. Wordpress has so many solutions for those who want control of changes while giving some neat bells and whistles. Now I am my own Webmaster and can make my own changes - all I need is internet and my laptop...

Mesquite Dunes, Death valley

Long story short here is the new website - http://harrysandler.com. This site will be kept up to date with where I am in the world. my workshops, presentations and classes, links to my two blogs, and, for the first time, I am making my work available for purchase. In the footer there are links to my social media pages and also an email link to the webmaster, me......

Thanks to Jeff Johnson for all of his technical help getting this done......

Mesquite Dunes

Mesquite Dunes, Death Vally, California

'Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within'.......Chinese Proverb