Photographers at Badwater flood, California

Photographers at Badwater flood

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Photographers at Badwater flood
Death Valley National Park, California   –   February 9, 2005
— Ralph Paonessa
Canon EOS-1D Mark II   *   17-40mm   *   ISO 100   *   1/25 sec @ f/8

Photographers in my workshop survey the rare flood of Badwater Basin in Death Valley, after an unusually wet winter. The water is only a few inches deep over the vast flat playa.

This is 279 feet below sea level, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere.

Photo ID: 20050209-816