Indian Wells Golf Resort, Indian Wells, California.
Janine has now updated our website with our new photos of the Palm Springs area.
Palm Springs was one of the first communities developed in this portion of desert. In addition, Palm Springs is also where the airport is located, so the whole area is often referred to as Palm Springs, although today it is made up of a series of smaller towns like Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells, La Quinta and Palm Desert to name a few. When I’m driving around down there, I never seem to know exactly what town I’m in.
On the local news they refer to the area as the Coachella Valley although locals don’t seem to like that name, and people outside the area probably haven’t heard of it, so for now, we will still call the area Palm Springs. Our page has photos of most the smaller communities in the area.
In the photo above, of the public golf course, I needed to blend a couple different exposures to maintain detail in the building. Despite being a “public” course, I was asked to leave right after taking this photo – evidently they don’t like the “public” taking picture there.
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Nice background story Ron. That is true. All of us So Cal natives pretty much just call the whole area Palm Springs. My parents used to take us to the trout farm in Whitewater Canyon and we’d just call it Palm Springs. I didn’t even know the real name of the place until after I was an adult.
Thanks Richard – yeah, everyone seems to just call the area Palm Springs – I don’t know how the area ended up with some many communities.
Love your photos, Ron, particularly the palms. Beautiful colours and contrasts.
Thank you Noella!