Phoenix AZ

Chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater)

Fun Fact: Unlike snakes, lizards shed their skin in pieces. Looks like a new lizard coming forth from an old suit 😁

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May Theme: "My Home Arizona" - "Here doggy doggy!" - Western Coyote

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phoenix, arizona 2009

EXPLORE #7 on 10-04-08

Approaching storm...that eventually passed over,

even though it was threatening looking!

MADE EXPLORE: #112 on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Gorgeous sunset (March 21, 2009) in Arizona tonight...reminded me a bit of a crystalline, perfect sunset.

I love it when the Saguaros are in bloom

Fun Fact: The white blossom of the Saguaro Cactus is the Arizona State Flower.

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Speckled Rattlesnake - I walked just past this boulder (and fairly close to it) when I noticed the snake at the mouth of the crack. Boy did I jump! It didn't move for the longest time, allowing me to get a few shots of it.

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MADE EXPLORE: # 33 on Friday, July 31, 2009

I pulled this out of some older shoots from March 08...too hot to be in the sun for new ones!

May Theme: "My Home Arizona" - Northern Mockingbirds

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EXPLORE: #106 on Monday, February 18, 2008

MADE EXPLORE: #18 on Friday, April 3, 2009 Misty day moon...the sky was bright blue . . . amazing how bright it can be during the daylight.

Another long exposure of downtown Phoenix from the Papago Mountains during rush hour.

MADE EXPLORE #8

Out for a drive in Anthem, Az

Speckled Rattlesnake - (Crotalus mitchellii)

This Speckled Rattlesnake so closely matched the granite rocks around it, that it had to be pointed out to me before I actually saw the snake. What a beauty!

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Nobody is immune to the turbulence that one encounters living life. Remember that surviving the storm means you've lived. Continue the journey down the path of life and know the storm will not last forever.

Photo taken on the nature trail at Mayo Clinic Hospital grounds in Phoenix, AZ.

We flew down the bumpy, dirt road that is the Apache Trail to catch the sunset. We missed it, but fortunately the Roosevelt Dam was waiting for us at the end, beautifully lit up in the still night.

I also forgot my tripod, but was lucky to find a leveled off railing that I rested my camera on. I had to be resourceful!

Captured in a seedy area of south Phoenix. Didn’t stick around too long after shooting. This is the same car in the background of one of my recent toy shoots.

EXPLORE #86 on 08-25-08

coming home from Prescott last October. This is Highway?. .not sure...but I am looking back.wards...Phoenix is behind me. Larger view is better. There was an atmosphere of "Hurry, let's miss the storm...hurry!" And of course, duh, me...I am lovin' the approacing storm.

This pole was built in 1956. Some of the included more "recent" additions/upgrades are the cutout, transformer (25-35 yrs old?), neutral wire spool, and etc... The brown insulators, Ohio brass two-disk suspensions, crossarm, and wooden brace remain...

Also...

One thing that made me wonder... I'm imagining these are the similar kinds of deadends that used to be a bit common in Danbury, CT before the armless corner (straight insulator chain) poles came (among other areas that had the same conversion)...

Tempe Town Lake leading to the ASU Campus.

Went on a New Years Day photo shoot with my brother and my youngest daughter. We decided on a rural decay shoot and drove around downtown Phoenix. There’s actually a lot to photograph in this city.

Phoenix and Scottsdale Arizona, USA views from Sunrise Peak Trail.

The wren looks lonely atop this Saguaro Cactus. Photographed in the Sonoran Preserve at Apache Wash Trailhead near Phoenix, Arizona.

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Photographed in the Sonoran Preserve at Apache Wash Trailhead near Phoenix, Arizona. The state bird of Arizona loves the Saguaro, which is also the state flower.

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The lower tier is a vanilla cake with pineapple filling and the upper one has a raspberry chocolate filling! One of the best cake's I've tasted and surely the most stunning one!

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Thought I'd throw this one into the fence friday pool before heading to work.

This is from January when I had been in Phoenix. We walked from the building in which our workshop was held to the cafeteria in the hospital each day for lunch. All these lines and shadows intrigued me.

Photographed in the Sonoran Preserve at Apache Wash Trailhead near Phoenix, Arizona.

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Photographed in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Photographed in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Climbing out.

Photographed in the Desert Botanical Garden near Phoenix, Arizona.

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Climbing out on an overcast day.

MADE EXPLORE: #256 on Thursday, May 21, 2009

Take a peek in the larger size to see the little eyelids closed. Tired mommie duck protecting her babies.

Fireplace in burned home, Phoenix, AZ

Voigtlander Vitomatic I

Color-Skopar 50mm 1:2.8 lens

1/300 sec @ f/16

Kentmere Pan 400 home processed in Kodak HC-110, Dil. B

Taking off.

Photographed in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Parked.

Taking off.

I think the sign says "Precision Plastics Ltd" then "Plastic" followed by something illegible.

Taking off.

Converted C-47B-1-DL 43-16340

MADE EXPLORE: #286 on Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I had just put fresh nectar out. This was such a pretty male hummingbird...very hungry. The feeder was empty for a couple of days....those woodpeckers steal from the feeder! hrmph!

I was driving around Desert Mountain, AZ on a golf cart when I spotted this...