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I wanted to show the size of the desert candles from yesterday’s post – I needed a way to show scale, so I put my camera on self timer and sorta posed with the unique wildflowers.
This is a pretty rare photo – not because it is hard to find desert candles, although it is – but it is more rare for me to be in front of the camera!
Desert Candle, Mojave Desert.
The Desert Candle has to be one of of the most unique wildflowers I have ever seen! When back lit, the hollow shaft of these giant flowers exhibits a wonderful glow, they are really impressive. I think they are fairly rare, I know I looked far and wide before finding a small patch in 2005, and its not like they are hard to miss!
Normally I love winter, but this year in Alaska we have had endless warm temperatures and rain – in the winter, rain is wasted precipitation in my opinion – it could be snow! So I guess this spring like weather has got me thinking of spring wildflowers!
Poppies in the Arizona Mojave Desert.
Another storm just past through the desert Southwest dumping even more rain! The Phoenix area received an additional inch of rain this past weekend, with even more forecasted for today and tomorrow, this really could be good news for wildflowers in Arizona this spring. Palm Springs also received .6 of an inch of rain. Unfortunately the rain largely missed Anza-Borrego, they officially received .02 of an inch.
Zion Canyon Overlook, Utah.
When I’m traveling, the photos I post here on the blog are ones that take little work. Now that I’m back in the office, I have the computer and time to spend on some of the more difficult photos.Read More
Wildflowers in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California in 2005.
The last two years in the desert Southwest have been bone dry. Fortunately that all changed late last week.Read More
If you are looking for some last minute gift ideas, you might consider our 2008 Alaska Calendar. We don’t actually have any left, but I learned last week that ANHA still has a few left. Here is a link to the calendar at their on the on-line store; ANHA. They sell for $10.
Seward Boat Harbor, Alaska.
Yesterday’s (Thursday) sunrise wasn’t limited to Seward, it was so spectacular in Anchorage that they did a story on it on the nightly news!
Today I was ready and went down to the Small Boat Harbor. The sunrise was very short lived and not nearly as spectacular, but it was still pretty nice.
Wouldn’t you know it, a few hours after saying I wouldn’t be doing much shooting, I’m out photographing this sunrise. How could I not! With a good humored, sarcastic laugh, Janine mentioned how we really needed more photos of a sunrise over Resurrection Bay – I probably have 100’s. That’s ok, I will probably take 100’s more in the years to come, even if they are just for me. In reality, because of the surrounding mountains, sunrises and sunsets are relatively infrequent around Seward.
We traveled to some beautiful areas this fall including the Tetons, but in my opinion nothing compares to where we live. The Tetons are a household name in the U.S., but I think this range of mountains is equally dramatic, rising out of the ocean with near the vertical relief as the Tetons, and yet I don’t even know the names of these peaks – they may not have names. By Alaska standards, these are small. I feel very blessed and fortunate to live near such beauty!
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