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Moses Coulee cuts into the Waterville Plateau, which lies in the northwest corner of the Columbia River Plateau. One of the largest flood basalts ever to appear on the earth's surface engulfed more than 60,000 square miles over the Pacific Northwest area of North America. Major basaltic eruptions occured between 17 and 14 million years ago.

As a boy, I explored much of this area with my dad who was infatuated with the area. This is desert land and it is dominated by blueish-green sage brush. The sage brush emits a peculiar smell in spingtime. Here you will find a few smaller cactus plants, and colorful dragonflies zoom around like little helicoptors throughout the summer. On this day the temperature was in the 100's Farenheit.

Taken with a Nikon D40X DSLR on a tripod:

o Exposure: 1/100th second.
o Exposure Bias: None.
o Apeture: f/6.3.
o Sensitivity: ISO 100.
o Filter: Polarizer.
o Focal length: 44mm DX / 66mm 35mm equivalent.
o Lens: Nikkor 18-135mm AF-S F3.5-4.5 G ED DX zoom.