Photography in Valley of Fire | Desert Southwest Trip Retrospective, Ep 1

Mannnnn oh man! This summer has been a wild one. Still a number of little things I've been wanting to do, but weekends have really been something to be relished coming out of a work week.
Still wanted to put something out, so I pulled together this trip retrospective from going out to the desert Southwest back in January. We went to Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada before making our way over to Death Valley and enjoyed a week of exploring. Helluva trip! There were endless spots for delightful landscape photography sessions.
A lot of the video footage from this one was taken by my friend Kristen - much love to her (also it's her birthday week, give her a shout in the comments if you're bothering to read this)! The pacing is a bit different from other videos I've uploaded being that I didn't have a youtube channel at point of this trip and wasn't planning to make something of it, but I think it works all in all. Power of editing and voiceover I suppose?
The camper we rented was through Travellers Autobarn. If you're looking at this and thinking "heck, that's something I'd like to do", AND decide to rent a van through them, I have a referral link :). Not represented by them or anything, but I guess we get a little money from them if you do use the link -- why not, right?
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Nevada State Parks link for Valley of Fire:
parks.nv.gov/parks/valley-of-...
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Timeline:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Van Details
00:45 Travel to Valley of Fire
00:59 Arriving at Atlatl Rock
01:20 Atlatl Walkabout and Photography
02:02 Nightfall
02:20 Following Day
02:28 Rainbow Vista Trailhead Photography
02:59 Firewave Trailhead Photography
03:34 White Domes Trail and Slot Canyon
04:55 Silica Dome Trail
05:20 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
05:37 Silica Dome Photography
05:58 Mouse's Tank Hike and Photography
06:27 Travel to Death Valley
06:54 Campsite Shenanigans
07:09 Boondocking Astro
07:31 Thoughts in retrospect
08:00 Things to come
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Equipment used:
Canon 5D Mark IV
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM
Canon 70-200mm f/4 L IS
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens
Rokinon 14mm F/2.8
Manfrotto Element Traveler
Google Pixel 4XL
iPhone 13 Pro
Samson Technologies Q2U
#landscapephotography #desert #valleyoffire

[@TC_Conner]

Really enjoyed this vlog Christine! Thanks for takin us along! 💙💙

[@TheWebsterExperience]

So many different landscapes in one country 🤩 That looks stunning!