Back-lit ocotillo against a shadowed hillside. These guys were really getting bright red!
Gila Woodpecker
A Gila Woodpecker tends to a nest cavity in a Saguaro Cactus – McDowell Mountain Regional Park, Arizona.Read More
Web Server Blues
Owl’s Clover.
This Owl’s Clover really has nothing to do with our web server – we were adjusting a few photos from earlier in the trip for a customer, and I thought it was kinda purdy, so I went with it.
Our main photo website seems to grow in spurts, and lately it has really been spurting. According to Webalizer, we had over 336,000 visitors last month! This month is even busier. I believe Webalizer counts spiders and repeat visitors, so that number is probably a bit overstated , but even if you reduce it by a third, it is still a lot of great activity.
That’s the good news, now the bad. Read More
Downtown Phoenix
Last night in downtown Phoenix. Arizona.
This is one of the few sunsets we have had here in Phoenix. I would have loved to had a sky like this for one of my wildflower landscapes earlier this month!
Here are more Phoenix photos.
Many Me’s
I stuck my head into this sculpture in Scottsdale, Arizona near the Fashion Square, thinking I could use it to frame a composition. I was surprised to find the inside to be nothing but mirrors. So I stepped inside to see if there was a photo, and music began to play! There must be some kind of motion detector – I thought that was kinda cool.
I tried, but couldn’t come up with a composition in which I didn’t appear in at least one of the mirrors, so I decided to do this multi-portrait.
Tempe Arizona Ironman
We watched a photographed some of the Ford Ironman in Tempe Arizona yesterday. What amazing athletes! They swim 2.4 miles, then bike a 112 miles, and finish with a marathon – 26.2 miles of running. All this with afternoon temperatures in the mid 90’s. Wow!
The athletes had to qualify to enter this race, and from here, 80 participants will qualify for the Hawaiian Ironman. Every state and a 30 countries were represented at this event.Read More
Camelback Mountain Hike
This is looking down from the summit at a hiker making her way down the ridge on the Cholla Trail on Camelback Mountain. I liked how the last light of day was lighting just the sharp ridge line, leaving a dark shadow behind the ridge.
It is awesome to find such a great mountain trail in the middle of a giant city like Phoenix! If I lived here, I would do it all the time. As you can see, it isn’t just a walk in the park, it is fairly steep, with places that have sharp drops on either side. I can see why there are lots of rescues – when we hiked up, there were definitely some people up there who were completely out of place and really didn’t belong. Read More
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