2024 Southwest Trip - Day 7 - Death Valley

Gallery (35 images): 2024 Southwest - Day 7 - Death Valley

After camping in Echo Canyon at a designated back-country campsite, we made our way to the Inyo Mine Ruins in the morning to photograph all the crumbling buildings. One in particular has suffered over the years that I've been visiting the ruins, and now seems in danger of imminent collapse. See photos 9, 10 & 13 in the gallery.

We drove out of Echo Canyon and made our way to the quite high Aguereberry Point, with a wonderful long view down into Death Valley. That evening we camped at the Stovepipe Wells campground and took some more night photos, with one of the Orion Nebula included at the end of the gallery.

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2026 Ottawa - Two City Walks

Gallery (40 images): 2026 Ottawa - Two City Walks

This gallery contains photos taken on two different days, one a walk in the evening to meet Emily after an event, and the other a walk along the newly reopened Ottawa River Pathway, part of the Trans-Canada Trail. It is the first time we've seen the newly revamped Cliff Energy Centre with some interesting architecture and two huge, nearly flat, mirror finished exhaust stacks that look like something out of a sci-fi movie. There was also the interesting Thunderhead memorial, part of the 2SLGBTQI+ National Monument, which is a large white tower that looks like it was attacked with an enormous ice-cream scoop, having unevenly shaped openings and an interior finished in small glass tiles. The evening light and shadows made it even more interesting.