I’m back at the computer and trying to finish up my photos from our visit to the southwest. I’ve recently posted new galleries to my Adobe Portfolio site and am continuing to add more as I go. It feels like I’m only halfway, but I think I’m a little further along than that!
We visited Saguaro with our friends Cheryl & Mike, over the course of two days. The park is divided into the West and the East, and we visited the East on a cloudy afternoon, and the West the following day with sunshine and blue-sky. The sunshine and blue sky made all the difference in the world in appearance, quality of images, and not least, the heat! It gets warm in the desert, although not nearly as warm in April as later in the summer!
The Red Hills Visitor Center in Saguaro East was especially picturesque, with the lattice roof casting dramatic shadows at mid-day. Interestingly, I’ve seen very few photos of this, although I managed to make more than a few of my own! Maybe I just didn’t look in the right place.
Anyway, here is a sampling of my photos from our visit. There are more to be found on my Adobe Portfolio site.
I was so happy to see that you visited this spot. We had been in Tuscon visiting a friend and she told us that we had to go – to a “cactus museum?” I said? So happy we did…. what a crazy interesting place and so cool that you it it in the spring when they are flowering.
Being in the desert is surreal enough compared with the green we are used to. But seeing all those cacti made it even more so. We were still a week or so early for the peak of the flowers, but it was still nice to see what we did see.
Glad to see more from the Southwest! I’m going to send you all 428 photos I took from that visitor center with stripped shadows.
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I asked for that, didn’t I? 🙂
Love the shadow image!!!!
They are expecting some rather warm temperatures down that way over the next 5 days. The overnight low this coming Wednesday and Thursday will only cool down to 89 degrees. That just ain’t enough for the softy!
I couldn’t believe that no one else was photographing those stripes!
You’ve been pretty toasty there in Colorado, and it’s been even warmer in Arizona. I have them in my list of locations but don’t always think to look. It’s been warm enough here with highs in the low 90s, I can’t imagine 89 for a low!