Exactly five years ago today, two close friends of mine from college and I met in the Las Vegas airport, rented a car, and pointed it to Death Valley. What followed was three days of loooooong, amazing days of photographing the barren landscape of Death Valley, which, after six trips to in the last five years, remains my favorite place in the world to photograph.

Here are a handful of photographs from that trip (my second time ever there) for you to enjoy...

Special thanks to Christina Holmes and Rob Larson for making the trip extra awesome.