Clifford Beshers

  • Storm coming down Bishop Creek to the Owens Valley.

  • Heart of grey.

    Rain falls on a mountain ridge and valley, obscuring most details.

  • A storm over the White Mountains meets clear weather coming up the Owens Valley.

    A storm over mountains on the left gives way to blue skies on the right.

  • A gap in the storm lets light through.

    Dark clouds cover a mountain valley, but a gap in the center of the clouds lets light through.

  • An anvil cloud that looks like…a cobra?

    An odd sheped cloud rises from a long bank of low-lying cumulonimbus clouds.

  • Comet Lemmon.

  • Cloudscape in black and white.

    Cloudscape over the White Mountains in black and white.

  • The negotiation between wet and dry.

    Storm clouds form an arc over a mountain valley, blue sky to the left, clouds to the right.

  • Storm versus granite.

    A storm gathers over a mountain valley.

  • One homeowner with a small yard decided to make a small railway for the amusement of passers-by. The skulls are a bonus for Halloween. Bungalow. Heaven, Pasadena.

  • Halloween spirit showing up in Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena.

  • The layered storm, again, rain floating over the hot air of the desert valley.

  • A band of cumulonimbus clouds over Pine Creek.

    Cumulonimbus clouds over a mountain ridge.

  • This place brings new meaning to the phrase “sun shower”.

    Rain falls from dark clouds over a high desert valley, while the view under the clouds shows clear skies in the distance.

  • Having grown up on the east coast, where the land is flat and cloud banks smother whole states in grey, I’m always tickled to see localized rain storms from the side.

    A bank of rain clouds hovers over a mountain valley in the distance.

  • The parade of cumulonimbus continues.

    Closeup of cumulonimbus clouds.

  • That white fluff looked large in the last photo, but here is the whole eastern sky.

    A large flotilla of clouds makes large mountains below look small.

  • Grilled cheese noir.

    Grilled cheese on a tortilla lit in a film noir style.

  • The parade of white fluff over the White mountains continues, dropping the first snow of the season yesterday.

    A long fluffy white cloud hovers over a long mountain range.

  • It’s not just the clouds here that are so interesting, it’s that there are almost always gaps in the coverage to let light in an provide contrast.

  • On top of the crest, the geometry of the peaks often tears a rift in the storm clouds, letting in light and photo opps.

    Dark clouds over mountains have a gap of a tiny bit of blue sky and lighter clouds.

  • There are lots of big fluffy clouds to the east as fall moisture comes in from the changing fronts off the coast.

    Fluffy cumulonimbus clouds.

  • Blue sky flees the oncoming storm.

    A large storm comes from the right over a high mountain, while blue sky and fluffy white clouds retreat to the left.

  • My favorite part of the Eastern Sierra escarpment near me.

    A cluster of granite spires lie below foggy clouds.

  • Clouds flowing down the face of Wheeler Crest.

    Clouds lie in the depressions of a rocky mountain face.

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