April 2027 Photo Contest

[Stu_Barnes]

Submit photos any time you like but the earlier the better, submissions start the 1st of the month, ish, until the last day of the month.
Photos can be resubmitted, community responce will let you know if you're flogging a dead horse.
More than one photo can be submitted by each member but in separate posts. Otherwise only the first image is counted, vote are cast by liking an image.

Please use your original work rather than images lifted from Facebook or other social media, its a bit cheeky to try and win a competition off the back of someone else.

Voting closes the last day of each month, when the winner will be announced.
In event of a tie the winner will be randomly chosen from the tiebreakers.
Winners get a 'Photo Contest Winner' banner on their account


Vote for as many images as you like, unvote or dont vote. It’s your call, votes are cast by liking an image.

If you think of any other rules that should be included then let me know.

Images may be used for the forum social media accounts and appropriately credited, if you do not wish for this to happen then please state that when submitting your image.

The winning submission will receive

• $50 forum store credit as a not so grand prize
• a set of the Global Grenadier Calling Cards

 

[Phobiac]

Soda Lake, Mojave National Preserve
Day 2 of the Mojave Road (East to West). Standing on an ancient sea floor, 10,000 years in the making. The white crust isn't snow, it's sodium carbonate left behind when the Pleistocene lake dried up. Grenadier approved.

Soda Lake is one of the largest playas (dry lake beds) in the Mojave Desert, sitting at the heart of Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County. It spans roughly 4,000 acres. The "soda" isn't the beverage, it refers to sodium carbonate (aka soda ash or natron) and other evaporite minerals like trona and halite left behind as an ancient Pleistocene lake slowly evaporated over thousands of years. What looks like white mud or salt crust underfoot is that mineral legacy, an alkaline, almost lunar surface.

After rain events, a shallow sheet of water can briefly return, making it temporarily impassable.

The Mojave Road crosses Soda Lake as one of its most iconic and exposed sections, no cover, no shade, just the playa stretching to the Providence and Granite mountain ranges on the horizon. The route here follows a path used for centuries by Native Americans, Spanish missionaries, and U.S. Army supply wagons heading to Fort Mojave in the late 1800's.