Selection is always a problem. Whether you choose think of it as "what do I choose?" or as "what do I eliminate?" you can not ever show everything. It is even more of a problem when you know that so many other photographers have visited the same location, even names such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. I was fortunate in being able to look at the scene without having seen those works. I knew that they had been there, but had not actually seen what they did. I had neither watched Michelangelo Antonioni's movie nor listened to the Pink Floyd / Grateful Dead soundtrack album.

These two photos are from some that I shot in the Zabriski Point area after we left the tourist vista point and walked around. A unique part of the experience did involve music. As we drove through this area in our pickup we were while listening to Liszt's Transcendental Etudes (Jorge Bolet) on the tape. The music matched much that I felt. In this photo, I was primarily concerned with pattern and variation.

The second shot below was from a vista (a bump in the road larger than the others) along 20 Mule Team Canyon. We had to drive the canyon twice as there was another photographer at the vista the first time through.

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