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17-FEB-2012 Jola Dziubinska

Sunset At Zabriskie Point

Death Valley, California, USA

Zabriskie Point is a part of Amargosa Range located in east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in the United States noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago — long before Death Valley came into existence. The Formation is made up of over 5000 feet (1500 m) of mudstone, siltstone, and conglomerate. The borates were concentrated in these lakebeds from hot spring waters and altered rhyolite from nearby volcanic fields.

The location was named after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. The company's twenty-mule teams were used to transport borax from its mining operations in Death Valley. Christian Brevoort was the grandson of a Polish nobleman - Albrycht Zaborowski, Lutheran born in 1638 in Węgorzewo, Poland.

Reportedly, philosopher Michel Foucault described his experience of taking LSD at this point in 1975, the greatest experience of your life :)
The site was also shown in the movie Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. This location was used in the film Kill Bill: Volume 2.

Nikon D700 ,Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
1/60s f/20.0 at 24.0mm iso500 full exif

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Larry Neel 14-Mar-2012 15:10
Jola, I have shot Zabriskie Point three times, and I don't have anything as beautiful as this... what "SEEing"... :-) Larry
Lee G07-Mar-2012 22:47
Beautiful desert sunset!
Tomasz Dziubinski - Photography05-Mar-2012 09:20
Excellent, Vote.
Stephanie04-Mar-2012 12:13
This is GORGEOUS Jola!!! My compliments to you! V
Jan Bakker04-Mar-2012 06:02
A wonderful view!
fotabug04-Mar-2012 02:20
Super! The star effect is wonderful!
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