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Ephemeral Desert Lake

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Posted by Darren Huski on December 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Ephemeral Desert Lake
Another image from the ephemeral lake on the salt flats by the Guadalupe Mountains.

A 9" rain in September flooded the salt flats making a nice lake. I caught some nice sunsets here on my trip.

See more on my blog.

http://wildernessphotographer.blogspot.com/2013/12/sunset-on-salt-flats-lake.html
Posted by Darren Huski on December 6, 2013 at 4:33 PM
Another from the lake.
Posted by Darren Huski on December 6, 2013 at 4:34 PM
And another. I liked the foreground here as it was one of the few places I could actually get close to the edge of the water and not be in 5" of muck.
Posted by Tom Kennon on December 8, 2013 at 9:07 AM
sounds like you caught a rare event! #3 is my favorite.
Posted by Darren Huski on December 9, 2013 at 9:47 AM
Another from that afternoon on the lake.
Posted by Darren Huski on December 9, 2013 at 10:14 AM
The last of the sunset light in the distance across the edge of the lake and the salt dunes.
Posted by Ken Bachman on December 10, 2013 at 5:37 PM
I love seeing all these places that I've never been to but would like to visit some day. West Texas is a long ways away though. Congratulations on capturing a rare event. My favorite is #1 and the last on your blog is #2.
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on December 17, 2013 at 10:37 AM
You really got some super stuff from there Darren. Congrats on a very nice series. :toast:
Posted by Tim Mulholland on December 19, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Wow - just wow!

I'm going to have to talk with you sometime as the Guadelupe Moutains and Big Bend NP are on my "to-do" list - hopefully in the next year or two...

Tim!
Posted by Darren Huski on December 23, 2013 at 7:23 AM
Thanks all. Tim, Big Bend and the Guads are both fantastic parks with amazing landscape opportunities. You cannot go wrong with either. I wrote articles on each of them for this site. Check the back issues. You can also pull blog entries from them off my blog

http://wildernessphotographer.blogspot.com/search/label/Big%20Bend

I firmly beleive that Big Bend is one of the 5 best parks and only is ignored as it is in remote west Texas.