Sunset over Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
Because the mountains rise so rapidly to the West, sunsets seem to be fairly rare here in Anza-Borrego. But, last night was a bit of an exception as these high clouds lit up briefly long after the sun had dropped behind the mountains.
Brittlebush wildflowers, Anza-Borrego State Park, California.
As you can see, we made it to the desert ok! This was captured at sunrise just a couple of hours ago in Borrego Palm Canyon.
I don’t think I have ever seen another person is this area before sunrise, especially mid-week, so I was surprised to come across another photographer. I was even more surprised when it turned out to be a friend and fellow Alaskan photographer Lynn Wegener! He was here with two other Alaskan photographers who I have met over the years- it really can be a small world!
I know a lot of people will be wondering about the wildflowers. I will give a report on Monday once I have had a chance to scout more areas, but as you can see here, there are plenty of wildflowers blooming in Borrego Palm Canyon and many areas including the hills above Borrego are fairly green. From what I have seen, I would say it should be at least a “good” year, and probably one more good rain from an great year.
Speaking of Anza-Borrgo, I thought I would mention that I only have one more spot for the second weekend of my Anza Borrego photo workshop. I do have a more room on the first weekend, and thanks to a warm winter down here, the timing should be perfect for both weekends.
Aurora Borealis over Trail Lake, Moose Pass, Alaska.
Since I captured this early this morning and will be traveling on Monday, I decided to do a rare weekend blog post.
With a lot of packing and shipping to do, I really didn’t need to be running around last night looking for Northern Lights – but I just couldn’t resist and headed out for a couple of hours a little after mid-night. You see it has been another slow winter for the Aurora Borealis, especially in Alaska for some reason – they have been getting some pretty good shows in Norway. So when I saw things were looking good on the computer, I had to go for it!
It takes a very good show to reach us down here in Seward and unfortunately this wasn’t one of them. By driving North, I was able to watch them on the Northern horizon, but didn’t have the time to go any further – I probably would have needed to go past Anchorage and Wasilla. So I made the best of it as I watched them on the shores of Trail Lake and listened to the ice cracking on the lake – actually the ice was really loud – that made it kind of eerie on such a dark, moonless night!
Ok, back to packing!
For those who are interested, you might enjoy reading about how to find the northern lights, or how to photograph the northern lights.
Sonoran Desert wildflowers, near Fountain Hills, Arizona.
You may have noticed the photo blog activity has slowed down a bit, partly because this rainy, snow-less winter has had me concentrating on office work, and has not provided me with new material for the blog. But, mostly because we have been trying to get everything wrapped up before our next trip which we leave for on Monday!
Where are we going? At first we fly to Palm Springs and then head down to Anza-Borrego where we will stay for about a month, and where I will do my Anza-Borrego photo workshop.
After that, believe it or not, we haven’t decided. With all the rain the Southwest has received, there is a good chance we will chase some wildflowers possibly to Arizona. But, we have kicked around a few other ideas and may go a different direction. For now, we have not booked a flight home – we will pick our departure city and date later which makes it kind of fun.
Janine in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.
Well our website is now completely updated with photos from late summer and fall including Valley of Fire State Park. Perfect timing – next week, we hit the road again!
Fire Canyon, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.
This is a photo from 2007. I thought this would be a really cool place for 3D video, so this past fall we hiked back in to the location with my 3D gear. And speaking of 3D video, my HD 3D video sampler was just featured on the 3D Vision blog today. I am very grateful they have included the clip! One of the nice things about being featured on this 3D Vision Blog, is that Anton has links at the bottom of the post where you can actually download the video for viewing on your own system – keep in mind, you do need to have a 3D system to view the footage in 3D.
This is effectively the same 3D video being featured by Nvidia on their 3D Vision Live website. I say effectively as my original video had some parallax issues which I have now fixed, and I added a few more clips including a couple more 3D time-lapse clips that I created recently in Seward. Nvidia also has the new clip and should be updating their website with the footage in the next day or two.
Unfortunately I know many subscribers to my blog won’t be able to view these in 3D, but hopefully you will still find my progress in this new area interesting.
Inside The Forum Shops at Ceasar's Palace Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
We have updated what believe it or not is one of our most popular sections -our gallery of Las Vegas photos. So check out the curved escalator on the left – didn’t know they could make moving stairs like that in a curve!
This is an HDR photo. I usually don’t use this process because the results can look a little over the top unnatural, but it seems to work will on Las Vegas, probably because the place is a little over the top unnatural!
A hiker taking a break along the Flume Tail, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
Well to be more specific – instead of “hiker taking a break” it should say “Janine posing for a photo”, but you get the idea. This was from our bike trip last fall – I need to do a write up about this awesome trail, because, well because it was awesome! We now have updated our Lake Tahoe photo gallery with new photos from our Fall trip.
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