Wonderful Thorns by Marc Adamus

Wonderful Thorns by Marc Adamus

Hidden away in one of the most remote road-accessible areas of the vast Mojave desert lies a mountain range reaching high enough above the desert valleys to offer an incredible garden of variety in Cactus and those beautiful Joshua trees. One can explore miles of terrain on foot that looks just like this, catching beautiful backlight almost every evening. The hiking isn’t fast with thorns of all kinds, but the quality of light they offer is hard to pass up. This is a 3-shot vertical stitch with a 100mm lens because I left my 24-70 back in the truck and it was a bit of a hike. Each shot was focus stacked at f/18 with great difficulty, taking many hours in post processing. An additional middle shot was used at f/5.6 as well to eliminate any solar flaring there. Black background should be the obvious choice here…. thanks

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