Submitter's name:	Joan Barnett
Title:	Panamint Joni
Gear used:	OM-1 + 50 mm lens + rock to balance camera!
Diaphragm:	f16
Shutter speed:	1/125
Film used:	Velvia ISO 50
Technical information:	Nothing technical here. Balance my trusty OM-1 on a rock and run (without falling off the cliff).
Subject information:	This is me at Aguereberry Point in the Panamint Mountains above Death Valley. I go solo camping and hiking here a couple times a year. A dirt road leads out to this awesome vista. Well worth the trip! Elevation here is about 5,000' -- you look down on land that is below sea level.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (olaf_greve@hotmail.com)

A very nice vista indeed! Amazingly enough even in Dead Valley at 5000 feet it gets cold (as your clothes clearly demonstrate) ;)

Comment left by: Jodi Jakeway (jjakeway@iserv.net)

Beautiful shot! Nice to see I'm not the only "girl" around here !

Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

whoa, for a second i thought that was a huge wave in the background. i was reading the description while the image loaded, and did a double take when it didn't make sense. ok, ok, so i haven't gotten any sleep lately ;) but nice image, and don't be like moi and drop the OM1...

Comment left by: Ian Nichols (i.a.nichols@bris.ac.uk)

Um, yes, that really does look like ocean in the background, with the, er, what are they? salt flats? looking like the foam on a tide line. With that granite in the foreground, it could have been cornwall on a very blustery day :) Good picture.

Comment left by: Joan (joan.barnett@home.com)

Ha! Yes, it does sort of look like a huge wave and the foamy shoreline! The white areas are salt flats. The Chinese workers picked up balls of ulexite (borax, of the 20 mule team borax fame) on Cottonball Flats in that area. And Olaf, it can indeed be cold up here -- in fact, in winter this area sometimes gets snow.

Comment left by: Scott Nelson (scottcnelson@4dv.net)

Well, I guess I was in a Death Valley mindset, cause I never did see the ocean-like background till you all mentioned it. Or I could just be philistine pig-unobservant. What's that song lyric? "A desert is an ocean with its life underground." Anyway, so many of those cliche'd tourist-with-the-scenic-background snaps are unnoteworthy, however, we can see the noteworthriness of this one! Only nitpick: could be a lttle less bullseyed.

Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

"Horse With No Name" by Neil Young...fine song too "

Comment left by: Roy Talbot (roytalbot@hotmail.com)

I too thought that this was a photo of the ocean and the sandy beach. Self photos like this are difficult to take. Some I have done have me falling over and also the camera sliding off it's perch.

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