Chris loves being my model so it didn’t take any coaxing to get him out this morning 🙂
Here’s a glimpse of the awesome trail going through Rock Knob. It was built as a horse trail but is very popular with mountain bikers. (take note Jim K. and John W: Come on over any time for some mountain biking AND photography!)
A second morning of checking out the sunrise possibilities.
Chris had today off and I was able to talk him into going out with me. Thanks Chris 🙂
Cholla at Sunrise
Still looking at old files, I find an entire folder from a trip in 2004 to the Grand Tetons that I hadn’t processed! When I saw images from Swabacker Landing, that morning became fresh in my mind. It was way below freezing and a layer of frost covered everything. Gorgeous. Here’s one of my favorites from that morning.
Swabacker Landing – Grand Teton National Park
This image is so incredibly sharp that there’s no doubt I used a tripod. Check out this 100% crop of the reflection:
I should also mention that this image is made up of 5 vertical shots which accounts for the size at 100%.
Yes; I acknowledge the difference tripods can make! They’re just too much of a hassle so I will still rarely carry one 🙂
I left the house early yesterday hoping to capture the moon setting over city lights but I forgot that the moon keeps changing position! So I turned around and captured this.
Saguaro Sunrise
The moon was taking its time setting so I was later able to shoot this from my window.
Moonset
There’s no need to turn on the weather channel to know it was very windy a few days ago 🙂
Gambel’s Quail captured with Canon 70-200 f/4 non IS
Here’s another weather indicator. (same morning as yesterday’s sunrise)
An ominous sunrise yesterday had me standing in the street in my bathrobe. My neighbors are used to it 🙂
Wowie wow! What a night! When the thunder and lightning started, I ran upstairs and pressed
my camera against the window (too tired to find tripod). It was so dark, I had to guess at the focus.
30 seconds later, I have this! Another storm is forecast so the tripod/camera are upstairs read to go.
For inquiring minds: Canon 5DMK2, Canon 24-70mm, ISO 800, f9.5, 30 seconds
Since more rain is forecast, I thought there would be a red sky this morning but it was orange.
The early bird catches the color.
We were treated with an even more spectacular sunrise the morning after the other one this week. The colors you see are exactly as they were! This time I walked up close to an Ocotillo and filled the frame with the stalks. I loved the image but thought it might be a good candidate for mirroring so here’s the result. If you’re interested in knowing how to do this in Photoshop or in Photoshop Elements, click on the photo for my tutorial.
