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    re-think YOUR WINTER LANDSCAPES

    Nov 16, 2019 4 minutes
    Text & Photography By Dave Welling

    I’ve photographed the Alabama Hills for over 30 years and have seen snow on the granite boulders exactly once. When I heard snow forecast in nearby Lone Pine, I grabbed my photo equipment and drove 180 miles in time for sunrise after the first snow.

    I captured a stunning landscape at sunrise with white snow blanketing the reddish boulders. The grand landscape was great, but I wanted to capture a different feel. Re-thinking my approach, I looked for unique elements to interpret the landscape in an alternate way and found a beautiful mound of cactus. You seldom see desert flora covered in snow, so I made the cacti the prominent element

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