Tag: Sunset
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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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Botany Bay Up Over
Botany Bay is a popular name: Vancouver Island’s version has homonymous counterparts in England, South Carolina, and—most famously—Australia. I have not been to any of the others (yet!) but they all seem to be more dramatic landscapes than this one. This beach was kind of a tweener: it was a lot rockier than a proper…
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Sombrio Beach
For the last two weeks I have been promising that the blog would go to the beach and here we are! Well…the image above doesn’t look like a beach, of course, but is right next to one: this is a petite little slot canyon carved into the beach’s cliff. (My wife reads this blog and…
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Stratigraphic Seascapes
In addition to lots of beaches, Portugal’s Silver Coast has amazing rocks and cliffs. There is great variety in the geology which makes for a great variety of photographic possibilities. The dramatic angled layers of rock in this location were particularly special, however, and they were such a group favorite that we returned a few…
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Golden Day on the Silver Coast
Despite it being the back half of November, we were largely cursed with beautiful weather in Portugal. I say “cursed” because in most respects featureless blue skies are challenging to deal with as a landscape photographer. It is generally a lot easier to exploit a parade of interesting clouds that continually migrate across the sky.…
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Deception Pass
One night during the Whidbey Island photography workshop, the informal plan was for us to go to Deception Pass to photograph the sunset. Fortunately, one of the attendees had a local photographer friend who knew exactly where to go, or I don’t think I would have ended up in the right spot. If you look…
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Sunset on Whidbey Island
Last weekend I returned from a five-day photography workshop on Whidbey Island, Washington, which is in Puget Sound a little north of Seattle. The workshop was put on by the Pacific Northwest Art School in the town of Coupeville. For me the big draw was that Charlie Waite was the workshop leader; I had enjoyed…
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Winter Afternoons at Whitewater Draw
About 100 miles east of my former home in Tucson, Arizona, and well south of Interstate 10 is the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area, winter home to roughly 30,000 sandhill cranes. Interestingly, the number of sandhill cranes at the much more famous Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is only about 10,000, although the latter compensates…
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The Alhambra
Our second full day of photography was spent at the Alhambra palaces. We started by spending about an hour at the palace of Carlos V with its beautiful two-level 360° arcade with colonnades. Fortunately it was partly cloudy, so there were some periods of harsh, direct sunlight and others of softer light—it is always nice…