This morning’s MSC hike featured Alice Demetra giving expert insight into medicines the ancient peoples made from desert plants. A brave hiker volunteered to wear a Prickly Pear bandage to see how long it would stay in place. It worked really well. (Thanks, Christian!)
Monthly Archives: January 2009
quartz trail view
Views are the reward after a steep climb to the Quartz Outcropping in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.
chihuly abstracts
A shot created by moving my camera during exposure.
If you squint, you might be able to make out Chihuly’s work 🙂
These “scorpion tails” are all over the garden but I have yet
to get a shot I’m happy with so I usually end up experimenting
with filters. Here I played with Framing Pear’s Mr. Contrast.
hedgehog cactus
Same Hedgehog Cactus as the other day. You can tell when I’m busy 🙂
chihuly boat
Trying to capture Chihuly’s glass creations in the outdoors is really tough
but with a little help from the digital darkroom, I get the shot I want.
Gateway Trailhead
The Gateway Trailhead for the McDowell Sonoran Preserve is on schedule with an opening promised
at the beginning of May. Most impressive about the Gateway area is
how little impact construction has had on the environment. If a plant or
rock had to be moved, it was replaced nearby.
stormy weather
Another tone mapped image but this time only one shot and with a little grunge look.
prevent image theft
Couldn’t resist sharing a little photography humor from WhatTheDuck today 🙂
hdr desert
An HDR image from yesterday’s hike in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.
quartz outcropping
Spectacular weather today called for a special hike so we went to an area in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve called the Quartz Outcropping. The views are spectacular making it well worth the difficult climb up.
