Looking east into the full glare of the mid-morning sun in early October. I had been in Las Vegas for a trade show and decided to rent a car and take a two-day road trip traversing Death Valley and returning through the Mojave National Preserve (desert). This was a great time for the trip as the weather was brilliant, temps were mild (relatively) and best of all, pretty much all of the tourists had all gone home.
I shot this with my Sony A99 / 70-300mm lens set down directly on the pavement