Some fireworks
As far as vantage points go, the place my groups of friends went to watch fireworks was awesome. Rooftop on the balcony of this airplane hangar at the little Chandler Airpark by my house. Tumbleweed Park is one of the more popular places for fireworks on our side of town, so there were cars EVERYWHERE along the roads, pulled off into the desert and I don’t even want to think what the park itself looked like. This was out of the way and we had a secret exit out across the airport to avoid all the traffic after it was [...]
Sunflower sunset
I’ve never noticed all the wild sunflowers that seem to grow around this desert before…it took this sudden love for photography to make me notice the beauty in the things around me that I take for granted. This was shot the other night, the same night and in the same area as the sunset in the previous photo. You can see the setting sun in the background. I just wanted to snap a few up close shots of the flowers frames against the fading light. Processed using a sweet action from Coffee Shop.
Just another Arizona sunset
At first glance I would expect most people to see this photo and NOT choose Phoenix, Arizona as the location it was taken. You have some farm fields, tall trees, wildflowers and some hay protected by the sun. Definitely not something people naturally picture when it comes to Arizona and our deserts. Ah, but it is. I photographed this last night about 1.5 miles from my house down in Chandler, which is basically on the southeastern corner of the metropolitan Phoenix area. We’re moving soon to downtown Phoenix and I’m going to miss sights like these on a few miles [...]
Revisiting the Grand Falls in northern Arizona
Some of you may remember a photo or two I posted from my trip to Grand Falls in May…I posted a few shots of it…one here and one here. I think I processed this one as a black and white first and posted it in a few random places, like Flickr and JPG Mag. But I was looking back through my photos the other day and realized I’d always wanted to see this one as an HDR and just forgot about it. I love the scope and details that you can see in the shot. Clicking on the photos for [...]
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