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Bob Tregilus

Got ants?

#Desert #Wildlife #Reptiles #Lizard #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white closeup photo of a horned lizard's face. The lizard faces toward the left and we see its black left eye. Its mouth is closed and it appears to be looking at the camera lens. It has short horn like structures on the side it its head and neck. It has many different size and shapes of scales on its face and under its mouth. The front legs and feet are seen but they a out of focus while the face is in sharp focus.

Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · 4 days ago

Got ants?

#Desert #Wildlife #Reptiles #Lizard #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

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Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · last week

Acid mine drainage (pit lake), Broken Hills, Nevada. Chemicals that leach out of mine tailings result in high concentrations of acids in puddles, ponds, and if containment fails, streams and rivers. This is a tiny--but very poisonous--puddle. I have also seen gigantic pit lakes in Nevada. The old Anaconda Copper Mine in Yerington has a very large pit lake. It is an EPA Superfund site, that like so many others, just sits there.

#Environment #Mining #Desert #Photography #Darktable

A color photo of a puddle in the bottom of a shallow pit. The puddle is bright orange from the concentration of chemicals in the water. There's a wood pallet like object that is at a 45 degree angle on the pit edge in the lower right. The landscape beyond the pit is desert shrub. There's a gently rolling hill a bit above center-right and a mountain range in the distant background.

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Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · last week

From my long ignored "The Road Last Traveled" series.

Please travel safely this holiday season.

#RoadLastTraveled #Desert #Travel #RoadTrip #BlackAndWhite #Holiday #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of a pair of small white crosses. The crosses are stuck in the ground among various small desert shrubs next to an empty highway. The crosses are in the lower left of the frame. The highway cuts in at center right and disappears through a gap in distant hills. The sky is clear.

Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · last week

#Environment #Mining #Desert #Photography #Darktable

Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · last week

From my long ignored "The Road Last Traveled" series.

Please travel safely this holiday season.

#RoadLastTraveled #Desert #Travel #RoadTrip #BlackAndWhite #Holiday #Photography #Darktable

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io · 2 weeks ago

#China confirms #solarpanel projects are irreversibly changing #desert #ecosystems
A team studying one of the largest #photovoltaic parks in China, the Gonghe project in the Talatan Desert, found a striking difference between what was happening under the panels and what lay just beyond. Environment beneath the panels was noticeably healthier. The reasons track with physics: shade cools the surface and slows evaporation, letting scarce soil moisture linger longer.
https://glassalmanac.com/china-confirms-solar-panel-projects-are-irreversibly-changing-desert-ecosystems/

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@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io · 2 weeks ago

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George Steffanos

@GSteffanos@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

Late Afternoon Hike Through the Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Monument (now National Park), California. March, 1984.

#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #nature #California #nationalparks #DeathValley #dunes #Southwest #desert

Beneath a whitewashed late afternoon sky, we are standing on an old dried up lake bed of cracked pinkish beige packed sand. To our left is an olive colored shrub. Ahead are two large dunes of that same pinkish beige sand piled high above our heads. There are ripples and creases along parts of the dunes, carved by the winds that formed them.

George Steffanos

@GSteffanos@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

Late Afternoon Hike Through the Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Monument (now National Park), California. March, 1984.

#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #nature #California #nationalparks #DeathValley #dunes #Southwest #desert

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Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · 3 weeks ago

Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California (10/16/2025).

#Travel #Roadtrip #Desert #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of a barren desert hillside feature. The hill is completely barren and appears to be made of a fairly fine grain light colored material. The hill has many eroded valleys and crevasses. The top of the hill, however, is a very dark material adding contrast between the top and the rest of the hill.

Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · 3 weeks ago

Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California (10/16/2025).

#Travel #Roadtrip #Desert #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

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Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · 3 weeks ago

Goldwell Open Air Museum, Rhyolite, Nevada (10/17/2025).

#Travel #RoadTrip #Desert #Art #Museum #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white square photo showing outdoor art in a desert landscape with rugged hills in the background. The art is centered in the frame. In the foreground is a series of large squares that are connected producing the optical effect of an according like structure. In the distance, looking through the series of squares, is a block, cubist like sculpture depicting the human form.

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Bob Tregilus

@elaterite@mastoart.social · 3 weeks ago

I wish I had clouds like these for my photos more often! This is the southern end of the Marble Mountains in California's Mojave Desert. The Marble Mountains are famous for the Latham Shale Formation which contains one of the earliest trilobite species at ~540 million years old! After about 15mins of splitting shale, I found this Olenellus clarki(?) cephalon. Finding fossils is kind of like time traveling. 🤩

#Fossils #Geology #Desert #Paleontology #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable