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Guadalupe Peak Summit trail

Posted on August 9, 2012, 11:00 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
On the day I photographed the solar eclipse, I hiked for more than six hours (considering the morning scouting session) and did not return to the car until 11pm. My initial plan was therefore to take a rest day, photographing the desert plants near the visitor center, and in particular the cactus which were starting […]
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Photographing the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012

Posted on August 2, 2012, 6:55 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
The May 20 2012 solar eclipse was to be an “annular eclipse”, which occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is too far from the earth to cover the entire sun. This leaves a “ring of fire” with the full brightness of the sun around the black […]
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Photo Spot 25: Guadalupe Mountains National Park – Sand Dunes

Posted on May 13, 2010, 8:00 am, by QT Luong, under National Parks Photo Spots.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park offers in a compact size a great variety of scenery and juxtapositions, including the highest mountains in Texas, canyons, desert, and sand dunes. The vegetation range from desert plants, to woodland trees whose color in autumn rival New England. Being among the least visited of the parks in the continental US, […]
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