Desert Selfie at Joshua Tree Mountain Pass
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 at 8:28:06 PM · 2009/penelope_jtree/penelope_jtree
A woman named Penelope takes a close-up selfie on a rocky desert trail, her face slightly out of focus due to the wide-angle 16-35mm lens used at close range. She wears a light gray jacket and has sunglasses perched on top of her brown hair, smiling warmly at the camera. Behind her stretches a dramatic desert landscape with a gravel road descending through a rocky mountain pass into a vast, flat dry lakebed (playa) valley below. Distant mountain ranges line the horizon under an overcast, diffused winter sky. The terrain is classic Mojave high desert — scattered scrub brush, dark volcanic rocks, and sparse desert vegetation typical of the Joshua Tree National Park region.
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