Clifford Beshers

  • 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.

  • Wheeler Crest with a shroud above the thermocline.

    Rocky crags with a cloud cap.

  • I wish I had been there to see the incident that brought about the creation of this sign.

  • Peekaboo! Mt Tom sits at the border of the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin and Range, where the temperature change is so dramatic, that sometimes clouds form around it from top to bottom.

    Clouds obscure a mountain, with only its peak showing.

  • Rain clouds to the east, over the White Mountains.

    Clouds of varying size and greys cover the sky over mountains.

  • Mt Tom dressed head to toe.

    A large triangular mountain is obscured by clouds.

  • Rain from the south pretty much extinguished the Garnet Fire and filled our mountains with clouds.

    Clouds settle on a mountain wall.

  • Storm in Pine Creek.

    A deep mountain canyon is covered by a dark storm.

  • Sometimes the scale of clouds will come into sharp relief when I compare them to other elements in a photograph. The mountains in the background rise up to 10000’ off the valley floor, which is at roughly 4000’. That means that strip of mountain that we can see is over a mile high.

    A large bank of fluffy white clouds floats over a long mountain range.

  • Cloud on cloud, creeping into the wind.

    Varying grey clouds look like figures low to the ground.

  • Just big clouds over the ridge in the afternoon.

    Cumulonimbus clouds scattered around blue sky, back lit by the setting sun.

  • The Owens River canyon lit by late afternoon sun, running towards the Owens Valley.

    A deep canyon cuts through a volcanic plain.

  • The Tungsten Hills n smoke and shadow are always a delight.

    Low mountain foothills are dark n shadow, surrounded by lighter valley floor and mountains.

  • Wheeler Crest enhanced by smoke and light.

    A mountain wall recedes in shades of gray as wildfire smoke gets dimmer in the distance.

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