Tag: Arizona
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Ocotillo Cameo
Cameo? Be sure to read to the end! I mentioned two weeks ago that I missed the Arizona summer monsoons. (Note that the emphasis there is on the word monsoons, not summer, but of course you don’t get one without the other.) The Sonoran desert is the wettest desert in the world, and the summer…
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Seventy Minutes of Sonoita Skies
I mentioned last week that I missed the Arizona summer monsoons. (Note that the emphasis there is on the word monsoons, not summer.) The monsoons tend to roll in from the southeast, so if you head southeast from Tucson the desert will be getting, on average, more and more rainfall. I’m planning a future post…
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10,000 Sunsets
I love my new home in Colorado for a lot of reasons, but after living in Tucson for 29 years, there are a few things I really miss. We recently found a Mexican restaurant that makes us feel like we are in Arizona, so I think that issue is resolved. The two remaining biggies are…
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1,001 Tumamoc Nights
Although this post is scheduled to publish five days after the solar eclipse, that is still two days in the future as I write this. But keeping with the theme of astronomical events, I thought I would lead off this post with an image from the supermoon lunar eclipse—a so-called “blood moon”—of 27 September 2015.…
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Bright Angel of Death
Despite the fact that I lived in Arizona for 29 years, I have only been to the Grand Canyon three or four times. In my defense, it is about a six-and-a-half hour drive to get there from Tucson. In many ways, the Grand Canyon is a difficult place to photograph just because it is so…
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Desert Boulders
In May of 2020 I decided to drive ninety minutes or so north from my home in Tucson to explore a boulder field in the desert that I had seen a picture of online somewhere. My wife tagged along, and I honestly don’t remember too much else about why we went; my wife and I…
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Barrio Viejo Encore
I know that I promised last week that this week I would move on from Barrio Viejo, but if you followed the comments on last week’s post, you know that I succumbed to Rob W’s request to publish some stragglers that didn’t make the planned three posts. I keep my weekly posts fairly concise with…
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Barrio Viejo Cactus and Color
This is the final installment in a three-post series about two afternoons spent wandering the streets of Barrio Viejo. Until yesterday, I had planned a different series of images to wrap this up, but in the end I settled on this series of four that go together nicely. All four feature the graphic shapes of…
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Barrio Viejo Doors
After having so much fun photographing doors and windows and such in Santorini, Greece, the previous April, last fall I spent some time on two consecutive Sundays out wandering around in a colorful old neighborhood south of downtown Tucson called Barrio Viejo. I had driven through the area a number of times, but the only…
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Whitewater Draw Landscapes
The sandhill cranes are the main—but not only—reason to visit Whitewater Draw. While the immediate area is pretty flat, there are mountains in the distance in nearly every direction. Arizona, of course, is frequently blessed with colorful skies that often can be exploited by compositions that show a lot of sky, such as the image…