I never did get around to sharing the third entry to the Orange County Fair. It’s a very unique photograph, not because of the skill of the photographer so much as the luck of the photographer being in the right place at the right time.
The setting is Death Valley, California. A massive storm the week before flooded several of the playa including the one called “Cotton Balls,” north of Furnace Creek. The day before this photo was taken another store came through and dumped a fresh coat of snow on the Panamints.
The morning was perfectly calm so that we had ideal conditions to photograph the reflection of a snow covered range in a lake on a salt pan … in Death Valley.
The other submissions were…
The happy news is that all three were accepted for the competition.