Trona Sunrise Horses Malibu — the cobblestoned right-hander

Malibu — the cobblestoned right-hander that gave the world its idea of California surfing

the largest continuous sand desert on earth

The color holds heavier on emulsion than it does on a screen

and quiet wonder at every glance

Trona Sunrise Horses Malibu — the cobblestoned right-handerThe Trona Pinnacles are an odd field of over 500 tufa towers in the Mojave Desert, off the highway between Ridgecrest and Death Valley. Tufa forms underwater at the seam between freshwater springs and the alkaline water of a desert lake calcium carbonate precipitates out of solution and builds these vertical structures. The lake that made them dried up about 10,000 years ago. Arthur shoots them at first light, the moon still up.