From the course: Travel Photography: Desert Road Trip

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Composing a shot to show texture in Devil's Golf Course

Composing a shot to show texture in Devil's Golf Course

From the course: Travel Photography: Desert Road Trip

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Composing a shot to show texture in Devil's Golf Course

This is the Devil's Golf Course, so named because putting would just be miserable out here. These are weird salt formations. I don't think that's actually like the geological term for them. I'm calling them weird salt formations. They are in fact salt, I broke off a piece earlier and ate it and it was very salty. They this was an, an ancient sea, these are some weird salt formations that were deposited here. Curiously enough according, I don't actually know this stuff, I read the sign back there. According to the sign back there, new deposits continue to get made. And we can see that when we look at the top, there are these really fine crystalline structures that we're tromping all over with our hiking boots. Fortunately new ones will be deposited, so I don't feel too guilty about it. It's a really, it is a unique landscape. You're not going to find this anywhere else, or maybe there are one or two places where something like this happens. So, telling you how to shoot the Devil's Golf…

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