Golf Club at Terra Lago

If you take a look at the photo on the website for the Golf Club at Terra Lago in Indio, CA, you'll see a different side than you see in this image. You might call this the "backside". The spot I took this photo from I think was meant to have houses built on it, but with the housing market downturn hitting the desert cities of the Cochella Valley hard, work on Terra Lago has been halted for now.

The thing that struck me as I wandered around here was how destructive we are of the environment. The desert landscape is levelled and grass planted. What was wild is tamed and groomed. Here you can see a bit of both worlds with the green grass of one of the greens, a shipping container acting as a workmen's shed but now abandoned and hidden from the view of the golfers and beyond the rugged desert landscape.

Terra Lago Sunrise

The previous photo was taken at Tera Lago at night. Here's how it looked in the morning as the sun rose. I love how the gold light was coming through from behind the arch in the bridge.

Terra Lago by Night

I spent the last weekend staying with friends at their house in Indio, CA. Indio is about 20 miles from Palm Springs on the other end of the Cochella Valley. The house is on a lake and this photo was taken while we sat outside enjoying the night sky and a nightcap.

This is an HDR (high dynamic range) image in which I took three exposures each 2 f-stops apart but at the same apeture setting and then combined the three images.

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