This year's drought has created this awesome but also eeri looking terrain from a dried lakebed right in the middle of Silicon Valley. I have been waiting to shoot here after I learned about this location a few weeks ago but the weather had been too boring since that time until last Wednesday when a brief thunderstorm passed by. Needless to say, I made sure I have my camera ready.
I arrived right when the sunset was getting good. Having only clear and overcast skies the last few weeks, I was only hoping for a decent sunset "with clouds". But, oh boy! What a dramatic light show we got that night! The sky literary looked as if it was on fire! Right at this time, a small patch of rain cloud went into the middle of the scene and added more drama to it. The highly contrasty red/yellow colored sky combined with the cracked mud terrain reminds me of alien planet landscape they show in Sci-fi movies.
Safety Warning: If you come here, be very careful when walking around the lakebed. The surface of the mud may look hard, but might still be soft inside. I already have 2 photographer friends who sank knee deep into the mud here and needed help to get pulled out. I was afraid to become the next victim so I took a compromise with my composition and did not venture too far out during the shoot.
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