Clifford Beshers

  • Phở humor.

  • Owens Valley Radio Observatory, an extension of the California Institute of Technology, affectionately known as “Big Ears”.

    A collection of radio telescopes of many different sizes sits on a valley floor, with rugged, dry mountains rising behind them.

  • This little pond is artificial, an excavated widening of the creek, a place for firetrucks to drink deeply, but the ducks like it too.

    Spring is showing on the left, while winter still dominates the heights.

    Water ripples from a creek, smoothing out into a small pond with a reflective surface. Fresh green leaves cover a shrub on the left, while taller trees on the right bank are still bare. Snow covered mountains surround the valley behind.

  • Returning to our regularly scheduled program, we bring you the Gables, thinking so furiously they are giving off clouds, above Pine Creek.

    A jagged mountain peak has rising clouds behind it that look like cartoon thought bubbles.

  • My brother, Neil, holding the attention of the water glasses.

    A man sits at a large round table, talking to someone off cameras, with sun streaming in from behind him, lighting all the water glasses o the table.

  • My nephew, Clem, channeling John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

    A young man reclines, wearing all white.

  • I nearly passed over this photo of Ed and Nessa because I thought it was out of focus. But the light was low, so this is motion blur, and another looked made me think this shows what it’s like to wrangle a toddler.

    A man sits cross-legged on the floor with a toddler in his lap. Both are blurred from motion.

  • My niece, Caroline, glaring when she notices me using the long lens at the reception dinner.

    A woman glares at the camera.

  • At the reception dinner for my father’s memorial service, I spent some time sitting in a corner with a long lens, capturing faces surreptitiously. This is Davia, Ed and Alena’s daughter.

    A young girls face is glimpsed through glasses and flowers on a dinner table.

  • Balance of power between a 30 pound Maine Coon and a tiny tabby.

  • My BnB came with a guard goose on the roof.

    A Canada Goose stands on the peak of a shingle roof, looking around the neighborhood.

  • After a long day of travel, it’s good to sit down to grilled shrimp with friends.

  • Ed and Nessa again.

  • My nephew Ed and his younger daughter Nessa.

    A father with is baby daughter.

  • Finnegan is a beach ball with fur.

  • Before and after. Winter to spring.

  • I got distracted and messed up the diamond ring shot for this eclipse. I kind of like the result, though.

    An eclipsed sun, with a bright spot where the eclipse is ending, but it is out of focus by a mile.

  • Corona of the total solar eclipse, April 8, 2024, Olney, Illinois.

    A photo of the sun, eclipsed by the moon, with just the utside corona showing.

  • Easter flowers are still around.

  • A wee visual puzzle.

  • Wasting away in Waterville? Doesn’t quite have the same vibe. There’s just a photograph at the bottom of the glass.

    The camera lens looks straight down into a ribbed glass half full of water sitting on a tablecloth.

  • Sometimes I like to stop and watch the electrons flow by.

    High-tension power lines run towards mountains in the background.

  • Last light, looking north.

    Deep blue, late evening sky, with mountains along the bottom of the image, grey clouds with their west facing fronts just visible in the last sunlight.

  • Lenticular clouds above Coyote flats.

    Lenticular clouds, shaped like lenses, are stacked above a low mountain range.

  • Everything blue but the moon.

    Moonrise, the moon is full and white, while the landscape is blue with evening light.

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