I went out this morning to capture the setting of the moon. I’ve been trying to get some good shots of the full moon for a few days, but some uncharacteristic weather has thwarted me until now. It was a beautiful clear morning today with the moon nicely visible in the northwestern sky. All the pictures…
Desert Sunset
Last evening, I ventured out into the desert for some sunset scenes. I was accompanied by Bill McAdam for what proved to be a productive shoot. We didn’t have far to go, the desert is all around us. We travelled about 10 minutes to a location where I had scouted some good scenery and spent about…
Full Moon
Photographing a full moon scene after dark can be challenging. The difficulty results from the brilliance of the moon relative to its darker surroundings. A camera cannot manage the strong contrast, leaving the photographer with three choices: expose the moon to see it as would the human eye, or expose the rest of the scene to see it…
Snow Canyon State Park
Traveling to Arizona, we stopped for a day in St. George, Utah, a city of 77,000 people, located in the southwestern part of the state, on the Utah-Arizona border. St. George’s climate is warmer than the rest of Utah, and typical of the Mojave Desert in which it lies, with a subtropical desert climate, featuring long, hot…