Death Valley is the largest national park in the lower 48, the hottest place on earth (134 degrees), an extremely dry desert (1.7 inches of rain per year) and the lowest place in North America (minus 282 feet).
Karen and I drove to Death Valley in late February thru a ferocious blizzard that closed parts of I-15 in Utah. When we arrived at the park, we were greeted with frigid temperatures, a downpour of one-third of the annual rainfall in one day, roads closed due to snowfall and rockslides and a 24-hour power outage throughout the park. These challenging conditions could hardly have been better for producing exceptional and dramatic images, especially with the help of our workshop leaders, Guy Tal and Michael Gordon.
