Joshua Tree With Sienna Hayes

The day after the Weese’s Pieces shoot I drove further out into the desert to Joshua Tree National Park to do some more photography with Sienna Hayes. We had planned a sunset shoot, and it was a little over 2 1/2 hours from my Airbnb. I left before noon and got down to the park to do some sightseeing and scoping out before we got together. I was also able to buy my lifetime parks pass, one of the little benefits of getting older. The park is covers a large desert area with lots of different types of cactus and of course Joshua trees. The views again suffered from the hazy sky; it would have been nice to have a blue sky with clouds, but you can’t have everything.

I picked up Sienna in the late afternoon and we drove to a location she had in mind. Luckily she had some experience here. On my scouting trip through the valley parts of the park with all the Joshua trees I didn’t see much secluded space for shooting away from people. We ended up shooting in some rock formations in the northern part of the park, but we ran out of time to travel around to the part with the trees near sunset (even though there wasn’t much of a sunset to take advantage of on this day). We ended up driving back through the valley in the dark on the way home. Nonetheless, I got some nice shots with Sienna in the rocks, and I had a nice adventure seeing the park for the first time. I’d never been out in the desert regions of southern California before, and this was a nice new experience.
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