Desert Sky Photo

Hello!

We are slowly working our way through another blistering summer here in Phoenix.  But still—it's  hard to believe that we are already a third of the way through the worst of it.

: )

Last year about this time, a friend and I drove east of the city and I set up my camera aimed at the sky with a very distant Weaver's Needle at about the middle of the image.

I was using my Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the kit lens I bought with it (24-105 L), and a Satechi Wireless Timer Remote Control Shutter to take a time-lapse of the sky and ended up getting some very nice footage.

Recently I rediscovered a very nice image taken while I was still setting up for that time-lapse—and decided to share it here.

Hope you enjoy seeing it!

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"Desert Echos" - Copyright 2016, Jephyr!

 
 Thanks as always for stopping by!

Cya soon!

A Few More Photos From The Archives

Hello,

As I mentioned in my last blog entry I've been sharing some of my Photography from the last couple of years that I hadn't posted here yet.

Here are a few more from 2015. 

Camera:  Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens (unless otherwise noted):  Canon 24-105 f4 L

As I've written before, I rented various telephoto lenses to test them out...hoping I can get one some day.

The beautiful creature above was taken one afternoon at the Phoenix zoo using the newest Canon 100-400 L lens.

I showed this image to a friend and told her how the swans had rapidly all bobbed their heads up and down making it difficult to get this shot.  She said she knew all about that....and grabbed her phone and showed me a video clip she had taken of the swans there all bobbing up and down.

: )

I may have mentioned before, I got to know a photographer who took amazing photographs of skies and clouds.  

Years ago, I'd loved taking those kinds of photos with an old film camera too...so she reminded me of that time...and I started capturing sunsets and clouds again as well.

One afternoon I noticed the sky above my home and took the image above right from a street near by! 

I'm beginning to realize that I've got a thing for birds too.  I draw and paint them...and love capturing them with my camera.

Grackles are cool little birds...and remind me of crows...but the ones we have in my area are usually brown...and are sleeker looking too.

Even though you see them all over Phoenix, and you might think they are more used to us humanoids, they can be a little shy.

The good-looking guy above landed near me while I was taking photos one day, and I only got off a few shots before he quickly flew away.

This was also taken with the new Canon 100-300 L Lens.

The last image I'll share today was taken during the last gasp of a glorious sunset one evening in 2015.

I'd been shooting much of the afternoon at a nearby wildlife preserve...and captured these silhouetted palms and trees with their beautiful glowing backdrop at the end of my journey.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Jephyr

Various Photos By Jephyr

Hello,

I've been going through some photos I took over the last couple of years and came across a few I wanted to post here.

This beautiful creature seemed so curious about me as I stood taking pictures of wildlife at a pond near my home.  

He slowly swam closer and closer to me until he was in the reeds right at my feet.

I love his expression and the way he was keeping an eye on me out of the corner of his eye.

I was taking some shots of the gorgeous sky over-head one day and caught this jet...no doubt loaded with passengers...soaring in the distant sky.

I rented the new Canon 100-300 L Lens one weekend for my Canon EOS 5D Mark II and captured this good looking guy sunning himself at the Phoenix zoo.

I'd gone to a nearby wildlife preserve to take photos...and was headed back to my car and stopped to take this. 

When I look at this shot it immediately reminds me of how peaceful and quiet
 it was when I shot it. 

It was a truly beautiful evening!!

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