Clifford Beshers

  • Blue, blue windows, behind the clouds.

    Above a valley of tan, desert plants, a large sky of clouds clouds of varying shapes and greys seem blue in the evening light.

  • Shadows cast from clouds and Wheeler Crest onto the rolling bubbles of the Volcanic Tablelands make for interesting geometries.

    Alternating sunlight and clouds make sharp contrasts on a high desert landscape.

  • Sometimes there are only fragments of a rainbow, and it always feels like a ghost struggling to appear and communicate.

    A cloudy, rainy landscape has sections of a rainbow dimly spread through it.

  • The nice thing about a spring and summer with a reasonable amount of rain is that we get good clouds as well.

    Clouds over the shoulder of a mountain ridge turn pink with the sunset.

  • It’s gonna be a bright, bright, sunshine-y day.

    A high desert valley is brightly lit except for shadows cast by large banks of fluffy white clouds.

  • Triangular granite sub-peaks on Wheeler Crest.

    A large triangle of granite on the side of a huge granite wall is brightly lit.

  • People complain that Presidential election campaigns in the U.S are too long, something I agree with. I suspect it correlates with the shift in population from rural to urban passing the balancing point. Well, this cycle we get to test drive a shorter version.

  • A California Quail commuting at dusk. #birds

    The image is entirely motion-blurred as the camera follows a quail running along the ground in dim light.

  • Contrasting geometries, lacewing on window screen.

    The underside of a lacewing is seen close up, through a window screen.

  • Rain falling on the Buttermilks, rocky hills so named because they had enough water to support a dairy, a welcome relief to stage coach passengers thirsty from crossing the great basin and range.

    A large cloud formation over mountains is mostly light grey, turning darker at the bottom, dropping rain on the rough, rocky hills below.

  • Big pastel.

    A wide mountain valley looks small under a sky full of fluffy pink clouds.

  • Summer dawns often seem minimalist. They presage a hot day, but in the moment, they are cool on the skin, the eyes, and the mind.

    An orange sky before sunrise has just a few clouds. The silhouettes of hills and mountains run below.

  • A praying mantis decided to watch me through the window.

    A praying mantis clings to a window.

  • When the sky is thinking about generating a thunderstorm, but it just doesn’t have the energy to follow through.

    A cloud bank above mountains is pink with the sunset, with a few clouds partially dark from potential rain.

  • Greybear’s toe beans, for #caturday.

    A cat lays on top of a cupboard, it's rear paw hanging off the edge, close to the camera and the only part of the image in focus.

  • Puffballs over Long Valley.

    Above parched, sage desert, the deep blue sky is full of white cumulonimbus clouds.

  • Clouds over the White Mountains, from Little Round Valley. The whole thing sort of screams western, doesn’t it?

    High desert sage with Pinyon pines in the foreground, dusky mountains behind, with puffy clouds threatening to drop rain.

  • I feel like these clouds are spelling out a message in a language I can’t read.

    Clouds are scattered against a dim orange sky above a dark mountain range.

  • Lines and rectangles on the slant. I guess this could be a #VisualPuzzle.

    Nested trapezoids of sky blue, white, and blue, on a field of concrete grid lines.

  • Opposing granite.

    A large triangular mountain in the background is a pale below white puffy clouds, while a sloping, dark ridge line slopes in front of it.

  • Watching Jacob Collier’s logic breakdown of Bridge Over Troubled Water, and found this tidbit:

    We had to go to E-flat Major for that, as sometimes you do, but E-flat Major is a fine place to be, so no problemo.

  • More firework photos. The first gap in the trees was blocked by a tree. A pretty one, but we needed to move on.

    A tree in a field stands alone against the last evening light.

    There was a crosswind from the north that provided nice blurring effects.

    A large firework is blurred to the left by wind.

    I thought this one looked squid-like. Not sure why, now.

    A firework that looks like a lot of squiggly squid.

  • We found a spot outside town to watch the fireworks, a gap in the trees on a dirt road, facing west.

    A gap in the trees shows a large field, trees in the city beyond, then mountains, after sunset.

    The first fireworks started when you could still see the mountains, which made a good background.

    Fireworks launch from a city park with large mountains visible behind.

    Chewy outside, crunchy inside.

    One large firework decays and blows in the wind while another one grows sharply in the same space.

  • A stack of clouds over Mt Tom, from light to dark, increasing moisture along the way.

    A triangular granite mountain has blue sky just above it, then clouds going from white to dark grey.

  • LADWP Water and Power installation lit up on the tablelands.

    A beam of sunlight illuminates a powerline and a water tank on a rise of desert scrub.

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