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  • Layers of richly colored sky and mountain ranges are a literal symbol of the desert in the American West. This Spring Mountain sunset glows with last light at sundown in the image made during the visit of the comet NEOWISE in 2020.
    Spring Mountain Sunset
  • A Super Blue Blood Moon<br />
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Glowing with heavenly as well as earthly light, the Las Vegas temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the moon in the heavens reflect illumination of a different kind, with the city lights of Las Vegas in the background. <br />
This image, a composite made on January 31, 2018, was created during the rare Super Blue Blood Moon event (kind of like a triple-dog-dare) between 4:00 am and 7:30 am from an elevated observation site on Sunrise Mountain. This moon gets its unscientific name from a combination of three types of moons, all occurring at the same time.<br />
A Super Moon is at its closest distance from earth and appears slightly larger and brighter than usual, although barely noticeable to casual stargazers.<br />
A Blue Moon occurs under two different occasions: either the second full moon in one month or the third full moon in a season that has a total of four full moons.<br />
Blood Moon is the name for a full lunar eclipse and can only occur on a full moon event. The term denotes the reddish color that overtakes the moon due to a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering, the same effect that causes colorful sunrises and sunsets.<br />
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Although there will soon be more Super Moons, more Blue Moons and more Blood Moons – even Super Blue Moons – there will not be another Super Blue Blood Moon event until January 31, 2037.<br />
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To make this image, the photographer set up tripod and camera at the onset and made repeated images with the moon first appearing high in the sky. By forecasting the arc of the moon and earth rotations, the position of the moon was predicted and possible to visually place along its path as the temple spires came into view. The image required changing lenses, however the tripod remained stable in a single location throughout the entire event. The composite was then blended and the final print was created.
    Temple Moon – Signs in the Heavens
  • This view is one of the morning after an overnight snow storm in harsh, desert wilderness and an awakening to a new day at sunrise. There's more though; this is a remarkable collision of land forms and desert use areas just north of Las Vegas. Visible in the frame ( and in the photographer's view all around) are portions of the following: Nellis AFB bombing and gunnery range, Southern Nevada Paiute reservation lands, the Sheep mountain range, the Spring Mountain range, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the Desert View Environmental Recreation Area, the desert combat training facility, the Three Lakes Valley and the US Highway 95 corridor.
    After the Storm
  • Sometimes the simple things are very elegant. This tranquil scene along a rural road caught me by surprise while on the way to a coastal lighthouse. While the usual fall colors surrounded the view as I considered how to make the image, I was mostly keyed in on the sooty black paint of the doors, accented by the clean white trim around the edges.  Cattails in soft focus, frame the reflective image under the low light of an overcast sky just after sunrise.
    Forest boat house, rural Maine
  • Zion Sunrise
  • Aspens - Sunrise on Webster Flat
  • Sunrise Overlook, January, Bryce Can.., II
  • Sunrise aster
  • January Sunrise, Bryce Canyon NP, V
  • Bryce overlook at sunrise, Bryce Can.., IV
  • January Sunrise, Bryce Canyon NP, I