Postcard Perfect

Where are the best wild places to catch that “postcard perfect” vista? They are everywhere we look, and a photographer’s work is never done in this national park. There are obviously too many great locations to mention, but here are some top contenders:

Devil’s Golf Course or Badwater Basin at sunset or sunrise (especially if there is a lake in the valley during our visits because we can get the reflection of the mountains in the distance), The Racetrack during the same times of day so that the boulders’ tracks show well, the Eye of the Needle shortly before sunset or after sunrise, so the sun comes through the slit, any of the sand dunes when long shadows are being cast (especially Eureka or Stovepipe), the grotto type canyons at any time (Mosaic, Grotto, Marble, Fall) or Titus Canyon, Artist’s Palette, Zabriskie Point, Aguereberry Point, and of course, Dante’s View.

Photographers might as well devote the rest of their lives to the Death Valley territory.