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Travelogue

Sonoran Desert in Monochrome

Scenes from the Sonoran Desert in monochrome.

Sonoran Desert in Monochrome
A dead Desert Ironwood in black and white.

The harsh lighting in the Sonoran Desert led me to experiment more with monochrome (black and white) photography. I actually quite like many of the results, much more so than the full color versions of these photos.

Sonoran Desert trees (in monochrome).
An old Skippy peanut butter jar buried top-down in a wash.
Melanie uprighting a plastic chair that was lying in a wash. Typically we collect as much trash as possible, but this chair was rather large and we were a long distance from camp.
X marks the spot...
Dried and cracked mud in a wash.
Rippled sand (and sandmat) in a wash.

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