This composition may look familiar, I recently posted a sunset shot from this vantage. I decided to go back out after the stars emerged to shoot the very same scene. Wandering through cholla filled landscapes in the dark is not an easy task, even with a headlamp. Often times, the light shining on them will make them appear as stones in the distance. Lucky me however, I can manage my way around some dense cholla cacti in daylight and in the dark. I found my composition, and kept firing off some frames. Venus began rising behind the peaks and gave off some light of it’s own during the long exposures. The desert at night is such a surreal place. The howl of coyotes off in the distance made it even more so. This was a blend of multiple exposures to keep detail throughout the frame.
Posts Tagged ‘Cholla’
Sleeping Teddies by Pcoskun
Posted: February 3, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, arizona, cactus, Cholla, desert, IFTTT, Kofa Mountains, mountains, night, Peter Coskun, Peter James Nature Photography, sky, southwest, stars, venus
Servants to the Crimson Spires by Pcoskun
Posted: January 29, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, arizona, cactus, Cholla, desert, IFTTT, Kofa Mountains, mountains, Peter Coskun, pink, red, sky, southwest, sunset
After catching the wonderful light bathing the cholla cacti in wonderful golden hues, I cautiously hurried back to a composition I had picked out if the colors in the sky began to turn. The cliffs started to turn crimson red and the clouds above caught some of that beautiful warm pink light. This is such a beautiful area, but one must be cautious walking around here when the light begins to fade…
Sonoran Burn by Pcoskun
Posted: January 27, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, arizona, backlight, cactus, Cholla, desert, IFTTT, Kofa Mountains, Peter Coskun, sonoran desert, Southern Arizona, southwest, sunset
I spent the weekend wandering through one of my favorite desert locales looking for compositions for future trips. As luck would have it (sorta), the clouds rolled in through the day and offered a pretty nice sunset that lit up the desert surrounding me. The light changed pretty quickly and I ran cautiously between the mine field of cholla cactus that dot the landscape to capture the peaks behind me glowing crimson red. It’s scenes like these though, that make me love the desert more and more every day.
Good Morning Cholla Cactus! by NhtPhm
Posted: January 26, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, beauty, bright, cactus, Cholla, cholla cactus, Cholla Cactus Garden, clouds, color, Dangerous, desert, glow, golden, IFTTT, joshua, Joshua tree national park, light, morning, morning light, national, nature, Nhut, Nhut pham, park, shine, Sun Burst, sun-rays, sunlight, sunrise, sunshine, Teddy Bear, tree
Photographed by: Nhut Pham
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, CA
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Good Morning Cholla Cactus! by NhtPhm
Posted: January 26, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, beauty, bright, cactus, Cholla, cholla cactus, Cholla Cactus Garden, clouds, color, Dangerous, desert, glow, golden, IFTTT, joshua, Joshua tree national park, light, morning, morning light, national, nature, Nhut, Nhut pham, park, shine, Sun Burst, sun-rays, sunlight, sunrise, sunshine, Teddy Bear, tree
Photographed by: Nhut Pham
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, CA
Social Network:
Nhut Pham Fine Art American | 500PX | Website | Flickr | Facebook Page