Posts tagged “mesa

Sunset Beyond the Ruins


Storm Cloud Across the Canyon


Desert Sunset


Mesa Moonrise


Mesa View Through a Dead Tree


Pueblo Ruins


Pueblo Walls, Mesa Wall


Divided Landscape


Out on the Ranch


Cloud Shroud


Bird on a Rock


Mesa at Midnight


Moonless Night


No Man’s Land


The Church and the Rock


On the Range


Afternoon Storm Approaching


Moonlit Desert Landscape


Blue Sky

Still sticking to my impromptu theme for the week. This is one of  several example images I like to use when I talk about how the best camera to use sometimes is simply whatever camera you can lay hands on in a hurry to get the shot. Any shot captured with a point and shoot or phone camera beats a shot missed with a fancy DSLR. I try to keep a point and shoot handy in the console or dash of my vehicle whenever I’m traveling so that I can quickly and safely grab a shot through the windshield or window. In this case I was driving on a reservation in New Mexico and for no more than about ten seconds a sunbeam broke through the clouds illuminating the mesa in the distance and creating a small section of rainbow above it. I had just enough time to grab the little camera, turn it on, point it through the windshield, and shoot. Almost instantly after I got the shot the hole in the clouds closed and the light was gone. A few other people who were with me tried but were too slow with their big rigs to get the shot in those fleeting few seconds.