Clifford Beshers

  • 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.

  • Pine Creek Canyon and the Gables, with adorning clouds.

    A mountain valley leads to another mountain in the distance, which has a wreath of small clouds around the top.

  • A tree stands alone in the high desert, brilliant despite the looming darkness behind.

    A dark mountain landscape is offset by a beam of light piercing dark clouds and lighting a tree standing by itself.

  • Layers of rain form a background to a local community.

    A house in the foreground offset a layered dark sky.

  • Two windows, two shadows.

  • Curtain of rain in black and white.

    Rain falling from dark clouds forms a veil over a mountain valley.

  • Curtain of rain over Bishop Creek.

    Rain falls in the distance from a layer of dark clouds over mountains, forming a veil.

  • The varied landscape produces varied skies.

    Stormy sky with contrasting grey clouds.

  • Another view of the same storm, with cloud cover thinning over Pine Creek Canyon, letting light through.

    Storm clouds of varying darkness hover over high mountains separated by a deep canyon.

  • As the storm moves from west to east (right to left), and down the ridge, it thins out, letting light through.

    Dark clouds form over mountain ridge, breaking up as they move over the adjacent valley.

  • Halloween agave.

  • Time for your solo, little hill.

    A small hill in the high desert is lit by a beam of sunlight shining through a hole in a stormy sky.

  • Jacob Collier at the Walt Disney Concert Hall after performing God Only Knows in honor of Brian Wilson, accompanied by his mom, Susie Collier, on violin.

  • Puffballs over the high mountain crest.

    Soft grey fragmented clouds over mountain ridge.

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