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G Dan Mitchell

“Canyon Narrows Light” — Soft, filtered light illuminates the walls of a Death Valley slot canyon.

Desert canyon light is remarkable. A canyon like this one is a huge contrast with the world outside — the intense, harsh desert light gives way to soft, gentle light and shade. The temperature drops. The color of the ight changes, too. Deep in the canyon it often shifts to ward blue, especially when the canyon walls are black or gray. There are also changes and contrasts where different softs of light come together — as in this photograph where the deeply shaded blue tones contrast with the warmer tones of the higher walls…continues: gdanmitchell.com/2025/04/02/ca

A Death Valley slot canyon
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Look at this wonderful young toad who I found today while moving hives. I popped him over in some damp earth beneath some trees. I felt sorry to have disturbed him from such a safe home. #nature

A young toad, brown against the brown earth. There are red shoots and roots crossing the bare earth, which had been under a flat wooden square. You can clearly see the poison glands either side of the neck. They stop most, but not all, things from eating him. If a dog was to pick him up they'd soon be foaming at the mouth
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