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Back-lit ocotillo against a shadowed hillside.   These guys were really getting bright red!

Owl’s Clover.

This Owl’s Clover really has nothing to do with our web server – we were adjusting a few photos from earlier in the trip for a customer, and I thought it was kinda purdy, so I went with it.

Our main photo website seems to grow in spurts, and lately it has really been spurting.  According to Webalizer, we had over 336,000 visitors last month!  This month is even busier.  I believe Webalizer counts spiders and repeat visitors, so that number is probably a bit overstated , but even if you reduce it by a third, it is still a lot of great activity.

That’s the good news, now the bad.  Read More

I think cholla cactus look great when back-lit.  I can speak from experience, these things are no fun to remove from an arm!  I now give them a wide berth.

Last night in downtown Phoenix. Arizona.

This is one of the few sunsets we have had here in Phoenix.  I would have loved to had a sky like this for one of my wildflower landscapes earlier this month!

Here are more Phoenix photos.

I stuck my head into this sculpture in Scottsdale, Arizona near the Fashion Square, thinking I could use it to frame a composition.  I was surprised to find the inside to be nothing but mirrors.  So I stepped inside to see if there was a photo, and music began to play!  There must be some kind of motion detector – I thought that was kinda cool.

I tried, but couldn’t come up with a composition in which I didn’t appear in at least one of the mirrors, so I decided to do this multi-portrait.

We watched a photographed some of the Ford Ironman in Tempe Arizona yesterday.  What amazing athletes!  They swim 2.4 miles, then bike a 112 miles, and finish with a marathon – 26.2 miles of running.  All this with afternoon temperatures in the mid 90’s.  Wow!

The athletes had to qualify to enter this race, and from here, 80 participants will qualify for the Hawaiian Ironman.  Every state and a 30 countries were represented at this event.Read More