6 posts tagged “desert landscape”

We rarely have fog in Tucson.  It had rained Thursday and Friday so there was moisture in the sand and this morning we had fog.  Here are some photos I took.

 

I don't know if this was a drop of rain or fog on this old cholla cactus.

 

This is a photo of a big blue agave in my front yard.  When they are wet they get very blue.

 

This photo is of my neighbor's yard and two mesquite trees in the morning fog.  Can you see the clumps of mistletoe in the trees?

 

This is my road to the east.

 

Rain or fog on a Palo Verde tree branch.

 

I had so much fun on Saturday afternoon with a new Flickr friend Val.  We went to Catalina State Park on a photo shoot.  I had never gone to the park without my horse!  It was fun to hike around on foot and see things at that level.  Also a blast to be with a fellow photographer and share the photo ops.  Mostly I was on visual overload and there was lots of eye candy.  Here are a couple of the photos I took on Sat. in the afternoon light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sure had a great time!  I'm so lucky to live in such a beautiful place!!!

OK, so you snow veterans aren't impressed, but we go a little crazy when we get snow in the old pueblo.

I left work early to start my vacation on a good note.  It is cold here high today was in the 40s it was in the 70s two days ago!  I'm sure loving my new 70-300 mm zoom.

Here are our lovely Catalina's with a dressing of snow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I loved this photo but it didn't get posted for the class as it didn't really fit any category and the composition wasn't all the great.  I loved the colors and seeing the mountains in the distance.  The beauty of this view truly takes you back and makes you forget all your stress and all the stupid things that happen at work.

 

This photo looks like a painting to me so I used photoshop to see if I could improve on this photo with applying the water color filter.

 

Then I had some more fun adding lighting effects and spot lighting the Saguaro in the left corner.

See the little two baby Saguaros at the base of the big guy and to the right?  I didn't see these until I put in the spotlight.

Which ones do you like best? 

I;m taking this photography class, Secrets for Better Photography on-line. I can post up to 3 photos per lesson for comments.  Today work was amazingly busy and when I got home I needed some stress relief.  So I got my old Minolta and my canon and two tripods and went west to the 100 acres next door and take some photos at sunset.  I've posted the photos here and my comments as to what I was trying to accomplish.

 

This was an example of natural light, using the rule of thirds for placement of the subject and a repetitive pattern in the lines of the straight arms of the saguaro cactus.

 

In this photo I used the rule of thirds to position the saguaro cactus in the left 1/3 of the photo, the natural light of the setting sun is lighting the mountain and the saguaro, also there is good balance between the light in the sky and the dark of the land.

Tonight I took this photo of the rain coming down on the mountain at sunset.

 

This is for Cinderella and is in color untouched.  When I changed the picture to black and white I lightened it a bit.  Since there was so little color in the photo I thought it was a good photo for black and white...what do you think?