When I awoke a couple of days ago, I realized it would be a pretty good day for photography. There were low hanging clouds that I anticipated would rise and reveal some very interesting “partly cloudy” skies. I wasn’t wrong (this time). My first photograph today shows the sky as I saw it around 7:30…
Author: shotsbyp
Scenes from 2018 Photo Tour
Our photo tour took us to a number of interesting places in addition to our primary destination, Capitol Reef National Park. We made some stops along the way to take advantage of some very picturesque locations. One such stop was the Hite Overlook, off Utah State Route 95. Today’s first picture features the Colorado River,…
Capitol Reef National Park
Last week was a big one for photography, our annual junket to northern Arizona and southern Utah. This year, we had a group of three including Barry Stewart and Paul Staley. Our prime destination was Capitol Reef National Park, located in south-central Utah, 10 hours distant from Scottsdale. Capitol Reef encompasses the Waterpocket Fold, a…
Favourites from this Week
I had a very busy week, photographically. I’m still working on some material from a trip to Utah, to be posted in a later blog. In the interim, I wish to share two very interesting shots I captured this week. The first was taken on the way home from the Utah trip, where we over-nighted…
Spring in the Desert
It’s Springtime in the Sonoran Desert. The flowers and the cacti come alive with colour again, as they do every April. Spring has been a little later than usual this year, but it’s definitely here and we’ll continue to see the vibrant colours emerge. My first shot is a close-up of a cluster of small…