This image was made by turning the camera to the left of Zabriskie Point and also backing up 50 feet or so, as I recall. It had rained one of those desert rains not long before we’d arrived in Death Valley, and I think the dark path in the lower third of the image is soil, rocks, etc that had recently washed into the area from higher up. I found that the formations on this side of the small canyon were more interesting and beautiful those those surrounding the Point itself. But the Zabriskie Point area as a whole was remarkable to me because its shapes and colors are so distinct compared to the millions of square feet that surround it. That’s how it seems, anyway. Death Valley is so vast, and so much of it indistinct, at least from a distance, that when we stumbled upon the Point with its sharp colors and shapes, this area really stood out.
