Clifford Beshers

  • Often this land presents as layered, horizontal zones of vegetation, geology, snow, clouds, and sky.

    Low brown hills in the foreground, granite mountains with snow, a layer of fluffy white clouds, then dark clouds above.

  • This was really quite the cloud banok ver the Whites. I took a lot of photos and found it hard to narrow down the list.

    Huge cumulonimbus clouds over a wide mountain range.

  • Round Valley pasture under a low ceiling. The cows were lowing, too.

    I’ll see myself out.

    A barbed wire fence borders drab winter grass in a pasture, low-lying clouds above.

  • Another view of this fine set of spring clouds over the White Mountains.

  • From above the Tungsten Hills, looking over the Owens Valley to the White Mountains.

    The viewer is high on a hillside, foothills dark below, then wide valley and mountains in the distance.

  • An Owens Valley road leads to the White Mountains, where spring rains hover.

    An asphalt road patched with tar, power poles on the side, recedes towards a wide mountain range.

  • A lone cottonwood tree waits for spring.

    A tree with no leaves stands alone in a pasture below a snow covered mountains and low clouds.

  • Round Valley in late winter, early spring.

    Pastures of pale yellow grass extend towards a snow covered mountain, the top of which is obscured by clouds.

  • Just because there are clouds passing by, doesn’t mean you can’t see what is going on.

    Wispy clouds partially block the view of a snowy mountaintop.

  • Sometimes the high desert is so bright, it pales. But when a storm comes through, it’s all shadows and howling.

    A burned out tree stands in the sagebrush, with high mountains in the background, dark clouds above.

  • Storms here often end to the east, when the desert pushes back, letting in a band of light.

    A dark hillside below, dark cloud layer above, wrap a horizontal line of fluffy clouds on mountains.

  • I love the geometry of granite.

    A snow covered granite mountainside shows interesting triangular shapes.

  • Another blood moon photo, perhaps slightly sharper. There were passing clouds that fuzzed up some images.

  • Last week’s lunar eclipse, the so-called “blood moon”.

  • A brave cloud has decided that the distinction between fog and clouds is artificial, and has decided to bridge the gap.

    A column of cloud connects a high, flat cloud layer with low one on a wide mountain range.

  • Mt Tom, 4:20PM. Or so I imagined.

    clouds coming off a large, triangular mountain make it look like the mountain is smoking.

  • A Great Blue Heron hunting in our creek.

    A tall heron stands in a shallow creek.

  • Mt Tom, lit by the full moon.

    A triangular mountain, covered with snow, clouds on the peak, lit by the full moon.

  • Wheeler Crest was looking like a snowglobe when the winds came up after fresh snow fell.

    Snow blows off a jagged mountain ridge, lit from behind by the sun.

  • Soft over sharp, pink over black and white.

    Soft pink clouds hover over a mountain range partially covered with snow.

  • The hidden road on the lonely mountain, only visible under certain conditions.

    A road switchbacks up a steep mountain face covered in snow. Only the outline is visible.

  • Hillsides always layer better with snow on them.

    A snow covered hill fills the foreground, while jagged mountain canyons fill the background.

  • The ridge on Mt Tom that forms the side of Elderberry Canyon.

    A sharp ridge , like a flint arrowhead, stands out from a canyon on a mountain top, covered in fresh snow.

  • Some days, you can see the waves in the mountains.

    A hill with snow drops from left to right, behind, higher overlapping mountain folds drop from right to left, looking a bit like ocean waves.

  • A view of the White Mountains, through the gap in the volcanic bluff on the valley floor, 10,000’ below.

    A curved bluff below and clouds above frame a remote mountain peak.

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