Sky Fire

Sky Fire

Click the pick for a bigger view Today’s image brings about all kinds of visuals to me.  I stare at this and think volcano, or the bowels of Hell are opening up, or this is some sort of post apocalypse aftermath.  But in the end it is another incredible display of Mother Nature. I captured…

Drive

Drive

Click the pic for a bigger view Quick post for this crappy Monday.  Both of my AZ teams (Diamondbacks & Cardinals) lost yesterday which makes today that much worse.  And on the college front my Jayhawks lost on Saturday, but that was expected.  Some days you just can’t win. I went through several names for…

Desert Burst

Desert Burst

Click the pick for a larger view Today’s image could of been called “Ode to Jesse”.  Fellow photog Jesse Pafundi has a nice style of including sunbursts in his shots when the timing is right.  Jessie always does a great job of catching those at the right time. For this shot I was wrapping up…

Fish-bone

Fish-bone

Click the pic for a bigger view This past summer we camped several times at Woods Canyon Lake.  It is a beautiful area of AZ.   After 2 hours of driving you are at 7,500 feet, cooler temps, and walking amongst the pine trees.  Love this place. During one of our trips I left out early…

Desert Rain

Desert Rain

Click the pic for a larger view Storm chasing this year was a lot of fun for me.  Not only did I get to see some awesome spectacles of nature, I met some new photog friends (Scott Wood & Bryan Snider) as well. Granted it is not a cheap thing to do, driving upwards of…

R.R.

R.R.

Click the pic for a bigger view Last Friday I had the day off so I had a little bonus camera time.  Woohoo!  It doesn’t happen often so I made the most of it. Towards the end of the day I found myself on this train track out in the Arizona desert.  Why I really…

Snow-stitious

Snow-stitious

Click the pic for a bigger view Today’s image was taken back earlier this spring.  We had just had a good rainfall in the valley which generally means a lite dusting of snow on the surrounding mountains.  The mountains you see here are known as the Superstitions and located out at the Lost Dutchman State…

Double Trouble

Double Trouble

Click the pic for a bigger view The AZ crew was out earlier this week chasing what might be our last storm for awhile.  We were all spread out at times capturing storms from different parts of the valley.  I started out on the east side and would eventually make my way south. The image…

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

Click the pic for a bigger view Today we revisit the Grand Falls of northern Arizona.  I’ve written several posts on this trip that I did with fellow photog buddies Mike Olbinski, Rick Young, Scott Wood, and Ken Petersen.  It was such an amazing trip full of good times and great images. We had decided…