Decided to go up Mt Lemmon last weekend and try and take some night pictures. There was some cloud cover so figured it would make for some interesting shots. The drive up is curvy and there are no lights - fine with me and the extra lights behind the grill of my truck. However some people need to learn that high beams need to go off when there is on coming traffic. A quick flash of the high intensity lights from me usually got their brights turned off. Now the photos.... This was shot looking south east off the mountain. Shot looking north west ish... Shot looking south from a rest area. And shot the next day as a storm rolled in I need to get up there during the day time when its not raining so I can hike around and see what else is up there...
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Just a quick look at some of the flowers that are starting to come up on the cactus around southern Arizona. The pinks are insanely bright - right up until the sun bleaches them out. I dropped the background color out of alot of them to showcase the flowers colors better.
This was all found on a quick 5 mile hike - waiting for the other colors to come up. And waiting on monsoon season so I can get more lightning shots... This weekend I went out one night to catch some flames from a few handguns. But the sunset was great due to all the dust floating in the air from the wind that day. It made form some awesome orange and yellow colors. This is an HDR shot to allow for more of the colors to show. Then the moon started rising so I started taking pictures at various settings trying to get it right. I did not have the correct lens for this since I did not know it would happen. I made due with what I had. And here is the real reason I headed out... This is a 460 Smith and Wesson Mag its a very big caliber revolver and can be accurate out to 200 yards. It also shoots giant fireballs from the extra powder burning outside the barrel... This is my newest pistol. Its a 22TCM. Basically its a short 223 in a 1911 platform. Super fast very accurate and little to no recoil. There are a few other things I want to try with the flames. I just have to find the time and figure out how exactly it will work. |
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December 2016
AuthorDirt roads, getting lost, dark nights in the middle of no where and photographing adventures. Travel
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