The nextday we headed out into the park around noon. Being that it was a pretty warm day, we stayed on very short trails. The first trail was Cap Rock. Here is an interesting joshua tree near the boulder outcropping that gives the trail its name...although you can't see the "cap" boulder sitting on top of the rest in this photo. In this photo you can see where the tree has bloomed earlier in the year, as many of the branches still have the dried out remains of the bloom stalks on them. Joshua trees grow at the rate of a half inch or less every year. That would make this particular tree VERY OLD.
I used the 50D with the lens set at 24mm, a warming circular polarizer (used on all photos on this trip), ISO 100, F8.0, and 1/80 second. The polarizer is a must for a digital camera when shooting high contrast scenes during the day. This is one of the huge advantages of a DSLR over a point and shoot...lens and filters. The polarizer cuts the glare and deepens the blue of the sky, while the warming effect in this particular polarizer restores some of the color in the rocks and plants that the rather "harsh" light of the mid day sun can wash out.
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