Joshua Tree Photography and Platinum Printing Workshop

Joshua Tree was colder than in the past but lots of rain, clouds, and even fog made for great photos the first part of the week. The last half of the week was used to make negatives and great  Platinum prints. Don's Workshops use Epson printers and Jon Cones inks to make the negatives and Don has made profiles that work for the metals and the paper.

Barker Dam, Morning

Behind Barker Dam

Livestock Trough Below Dam

Sunrise at Barker Dam Trail

On day we even had fog. It had rained hard the day before and gave us fog the next morning, very rare in the desert. Knowing it would not last long we hurried from location to location trying to keep up with it.

Wave Rocks in Fog

Live Oak in Fog

We made a couple trips to Keys View. From here you can see the mountain on the Mexican border beyond the Salton Sea on the left all the way to Palm Springs and snow on mountains on both sides valley beyond. Normally all you would see from here is haze but the rain cleared it out for us.

Palm Springs under Cloud to the Right

Dalton Sea Center Left

From Wednesday on we were busy with making negatives and prints with a few breaks for photography.

At Live Oak

Joshua Tree and Shadow

Ocotillo Patch

Rainbow, stayed ahead of us all the way down the hill

Sea of Rocks

Morning near Hidden Valley

Near Hidden Valley

Some of the Prints Made