Clifford Beshers

  • Pink cap on the Gables.

    Mountains at the far side of a valley are covered by pink clouds.

  • Another close-up of Wheeler Crest. Storms always bring the best light.

    Craggy granite in black and white.

  • Wild hairdo.

    Clouds rise in a tall column that looks like a beehive hairdo.

  • Scattered lenticular clouds in a naturally grey-scale landscape.

    A mountain valley is covered by a grey sky with lenticular clouds dotted here and there.

  • Dawn.

    Clouds over mountains to the east are backlit by the rising sun.

  • Rising clouds over falling mountains, lit by the setting sun.

    Pink and grey clouds over mountains at sunset.

  • Granite ridge, erosion on the edge of the Sierra Nevada.

    A jagged triangular granite formation.

  • Lenticular cloud stacks sometimes look like the most fantastical creations by pastry chefs.

    Lenticular clouds in a vertical stack, grey against a grey sky.

  • Big storms can make tremendous overhanging cloud banks.

    Dark clouds form a flat layer above a mountain valley.

  • Wheeler Crest has many fascinating granite ridge lines that make up its huge face.

    A ridge of rough granite that is part of a much larger cliff face.

  • When a storm front leads with rain, we often see this curtain effect.

    A high desert valley has blue skies to the left, dark cloud and rain to the right, with rain falling in the middle.

  • Catching up on the storm photos from the last couple of weeks.

    The edge of the snowstorm, where the warm desert air says, ‘This far, but not further.”

    A dark cloud bank fills the sky with just a wedge of light under the cloud where the mountain foothills meet the desert.

  • Rain has turned to snow in the next phase of this California storm cycle, but it was only expected down to 6000’. Surprise! Mother nature settled on 4000’ instead, so I was out early to do a little shoveling, knock snow off new plantings, and grab a few photos.

    Volcsnic tablelands covered in snow.Yellow leaves on a small tree, covered in snow, with blue sky behind.Icy snow on bare branches.A small house looks out on a snow covered mountainous wilderness.

  • Our sunset gradients, gray to pink to blue.

    Puffy clouds over a mountain are lit pink and grey by the sunset, with gaps of blue sky.

  • The knobbly Tungsten Hills in late afternoon.

    Rough, stony foothills are lit by low, slanting light.

  • Fresh snow on the Gables in Pine Creek Canyon.

    Jagged mountains in the distance have a light dusting of new snow.

  • White Whites. Fresh snow on the White Mountains.

    A high mountain has fresh snow, with a layer of dark clouds above.

  • Scattered clouds bring scattered light. You just have to wait for them to move into position.

    Below the Tungsten Hills, a shaft of light hits a group of trees.

  • Rabbit bush blooming yellow in Round Valley.

    Yelow rabbit brush fills the flat floor of a mountain valley.

  • My favorite kind of sky, varied clouds generated by unknown but certainly chaotic winds.

    Varied clouds loom over a long mountain range.

  • I’ve been fascinated recently by closeups of cumulonimbus puffs.

    A cloud close-up.

  • La Nina has been providing clouds like mad.

    A dramatic sky of swirling cumuloimbus.

  • Comfort technique of the day: tip over laundry basket, crawl inside, take nap.

  • Fall in the city.

  • Cumulonimbus closeup, with personality.

    A group of cumulonimbus clouds with an oddly shaped projection out the top.

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