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Joshua Tree National Park — Painterly Desert Art

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Painterly digital rendition of Joshua Tree National Park, weathered granite boulders glowing in warm light with Joshua trees scattered across the desert floor and golden clouds against a teal sky
Joshua Trees and Granite Boulders — Painterly Desert Art

Joshua Tree National Park sits in southeastern California, on the border between the Mojave and Colorado deserts, taking its name from the Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) forests scattered across it. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the area aside as a national monument in 1936, and it wasn't until the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 that it was elevated to full national park status.

At roughly 790,000 acres, or about 1,235 square miles, the park is slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island, with more than half of that land designated as protected wilderness. Straddling the San Bernardino and Riverside county line, it spans two distinct desert ecosystems shaped largely by elevation — the higher Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert — with the Little San Bernardino Mountains running along its southwestern edge.

For more background, see the Wikipedia entry on Joshua Tree National Park.

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Joshua Trees and Granite Boulders — Painterly Desert Art is available at my Redbubble shop across the full product range — art prints, canvas, greeting cards, throw pillows, notebooks, tote bags, and more. It's particularly striking as a large canvas print or framed art print, where the impasto texture has room to read.

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You can also browse the wider desert southwest collection — canyons, cactus, and painterly landscape work — at my Redbubble shop, KornKob Art. Or search Redbubble for kornkobart (one word).

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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .
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Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival

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