11/26/2024 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: autumn, cottonwood, daramatic, desert, fall color, Ghost Ranch, mesa, sky, sunset, trees | Comments Off
11/19/2024 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature, Night photography | Tags: corral, desert, fence, Ghost Ranch, mesa, moon, moonrise, night, twilight | Comments Off
12/30/2019 | Categories: Landscape, Nature | Tags: desert, divided, landscape, mesa, stream, sunset, trees | Comments Off
12/24/2019 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour | Tags: desert, mesa, old, ranch, rustic, wagon | Comments Off
12/10/2019 | Categories: Black and white, Fine art, Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: cloud, clouds, mesa, mist, mountain, shroud, trees, valley | Comments Off
12/14/2017 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour | Tags: bird, lava, mesa, petroglyph, quail, rock | Comments Off
11/03/2017 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature, Night photography, Silhouette | Tags: dark, desert, mesa, milky way, moonless, night, sky, stars | Comments Off
10/29/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Night photography | Tags: Chaco Canyon, desert, guided photography tour, mesa, moonlight, New Mexico, night, rocks, sky, stars | 1 Comment »
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.
07/19/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour | Tags: guided photography tour, light, mesa, New Mexico, rainbow, reservation, sky | Comments Off