Tag Archives: Badlands

Alien Egg Factory, Bisti Badlands

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Alien Egg Factory

The overcast, hazy sky with the sun trying to barely peak through provided some nice afternoon light, especially for this ancient scene. It is almost a monochrome, but not B&W.

I had tried to find this Alien Egg Factory over 30 years ago but failed miserably. With the knowledge that I had an excellent outdoor guide with me, Shane Davila,  Shane’s Great Photography Site , I was confident this time would be a success and it was.  Despite my bad back, likely broken rib and constant pain, Shane had me visit this site in an afternoon, evening and the following morning.  He had no sympathy for my aching ribs and continued to take off in a new direction even as I was ready to return  to camp.  (see last week’s tumble)

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Exploring the Bisti Badlands

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Bisti diving boards

There are numerous rock formations we found while exploring the Bisti Badlands that could be named the ‘Diving Boards’. Here are a few photographed at sunrise.

For the next five days, my good photographer friend Shane and I would be exploring the Bisti Badlands together.  Shane’s Photography Website   Because I had been shown around the area during the prior six day photo workshop, I was supposed to now be the guide.  I had planned on this so I was prepared.  I downloaded the Gaia GPS app on my iPhone.  This would allow me to drop electronic bread crumbs along the trail to get us back to some of the sites I had visited previously.

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Alien Throne in Bisti Badlands

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The iconic Alien Throne in Bisti Badlands of New Mexico.

The Alien Throne in Bisti Badlands is likely one of the top three iconic formations in this 45,000 acre area.  The general daily plan for the Muench workshop is to arrive at such an area mid afternoon, providing ample time to explore the surrounding formations.  Basically we are trying to find compositions suitable for sunset and sundown.  It is always very difficult to accurately pre-visualize scenes as they will be at sunset.  This just keeps the workshop participants busy until we are to shoot the Milky Way at about 10:00PM and crawl into your tent dead tired after midnight.

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The Desolate Bisti Badlands of New Mexico

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Bisti Badlands

The term ‘of another world’ really applies to the Bisti Badlands of northern New Mexico.

If you wish to explore this area of New Mexico on your own…. good luck.  I tried to photograph the desolate Badlands on my own twice before and was unsuccessful.  This time my plan was to spend two weeks there.  The first week was to be professionally guided by Muench Photography Workshops and the second week I would be re-exploring some of the same photographic highlights, then branching out to new Bisti locations with a good friend and outdoor adventurer, Shane.   Overall, despite life threatening mishaps, after the workshop, the trip was a great success.

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