Wandering with the Arizona monsoon: On the Apache Trail
What’s amazing about Phoenix is that stuff like this can be seen on just a short drive east of town. Now, it’s not Grand Falls or anything spectacular in the sense of landmarks or stunning vistas…but if you take the time to stop, get out of the car, walk down a short path and look around…you can see beautiful scenes everywhere.
This was a short distance from a pull-off on Apache Trail, a road that takes you to Canyon Lake and eventually Roosevelt Lake. My buddy Bryan (Whom I made famous yesterday) and I made all kinds of stops along the way to Canyon Lake to snap photos of the desert landscapes mixed with the monsoon clouds of the afternoon.
That was essentially the goal of the summer and my “wanderings with the Arizona monsoon.” This coming week I’m headed further northeast into the pine trees for a little camping and hope to get a different angle on the monsoons with the evergreens and mountain lakes.
Definitely click on the larger version of the photo because I think it actually looks a little sharper than the scaled down image above.
This is a great picture you made Olbinski. You sure do well with wide angle lens.
I love the composition of the foreground to the central butte in the background. That saddle and tree frames the butte very nicely. I also think the cloud to blue sky ration is nearly perfect. It is awesome how green the desert is right now. You’ve taken great advantage of conditions that don’t exist every year – well done.