Nov 16
A plant coming up in your yard (or anywhere) is often called a “volunteer”. This one is a beauty (to me anyway) with tiny 1/4 inch translucent cream colored flowers that appear along the stems at every leaf location. I put down topsoil during my landscaping project and hoped I would have some interesting plants pop up so I was happy to see it. I have no idea what it is but as soon as I find out, I will edit this post.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, it’s Russian Thistle. See comment below.
Nov 15
Today I’m helping prepare the trails that make up the bike course for the next McDowell Sonoran Challenge. We’ll be trimming away branches and/or cactus that might whack a rider as they go by. Ouch!
Nov 14
I shot this and many other images of Dandelion seed heads this past Spring with texture blending in mind. The process is very easy but success can be hit or miss depending on the type and color of texture you use on top of your image. This was one of the rare times when it worked perfectly. I love how it came together.
I applied 4 textures downloaded free from Image Abstraction and Flickr.
Nov 11
Four graveyard images and a few textures.
Nov 10
An Infrared shot of the Chloride Murals captured through a Lensbaby.
Nov 9
We were asking for directions to old graveyards in Chloride, Arizona when we were told about these murals. Not the best time of day to capture them but they were fun to see and we enjoyed eating our lunch under the paintings. CLICK HERE to read about the artist, Roy Purcell, and to see images from the recent restoration project (shot in beautiful light!).
Nov 8
Much to the delight of Cleo and Cloe, this fence at Rancho Sedona was literally crawling with tiny lizards. There were so many clammering for a space on the fence, they sometimes ended up on top of each other trying to warm up. It was a cool morning so…..Yes…I feel sure that’s what they were doing 🙂
Captured at max zoom with Canon SX1.
Nov 7
It was overcast and rainy for a good portion of our recent trip but wow….is that a positive for fall color! Here’s another shot from Pumphouse Wash north of Sedona. As many of you know, I have avoided tripods because they really slow me down but I now have a new appreciation. There’s no doubt my image quality would have suffered without it. As for slowing me down? I’m kind of slowing down anyway 🙂
Red Maple
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