Clifford Beshers

  • Great Horned Owl.

    An owl is barely visible in the dark.

  • Pine Creek Canyon again, with snow descending through the channels between peaks.

    Jagged mountains with fresh snow, wreathed in clouds.

  • Long clouds float on the thermoclines between desert and mountain heights.

    A high granite wall with fresh snow has long clouds floating along its face.

  • The Buttermilk Hills in fresh snow.

    A chain of mountain foothills runs below mountains and clouds, above a lower valley.

  • The eastern Sierra Nevada, desert below, storm above, and fresh snow for contrast.

    A mountain scene with clouds and partial snow coverage.

  • A canyon in both mountain and cloud.

    Bright clouds overhang a mountain canyon, where the air is clear and dark inside.

  • Peekaboo.

    A small cloud, brightly lit from the back by sunlight, pokes out from behind a granite ridge.

  • Wheeler Crest with fresh snow, viewed from the Rocking K Ranch area.

    A snow covered granite crest freshly covered with snow looms over a high desert valley floor.

  • A barrel cloud emerges from Pine Creek Canyon.

    A lng, dark tubular cloud flows out of a mountain canyon.

  • Shadows on the base of the White Mountains.

    Clouds cover the peaks of a mountain range while incoming clouds cast shadows at their feet.

  • We haven’t gotten a lot of precipitation in December, but the clouds have put on a few parades.

    Clouds run along a snow covered granite cliff face.

  • A land divided.

    Fog, high sage desert, a curving hill, a flat foreground segment the view.

  • It’s hard to choose among the photos when the fog spills down from the heights so quickly.

    A large triangular mountain covered in fog.

  • Mt. Tom is all triangles, but here it is basically reduced to just one by the fog.

    A triangular face juts out from a mountain covered in fog.

  • Mt Tom’s peak shrouded in fog.

    A mountain peak of rough granite is half obscured by clouds clinging to it.

  • Wreathed in mist.

    A craggy granite rock face is partially obscured by tendrils of fog.

  • 7-10 split.

    Golden trees in a mountain valley are spread wide apart, like bowling pins.

  • Fall or winter, depending on your elevation.

    Trees in the foreground are in fall colors, while a snow covered mountain looms behind.

  • “It’s eerie the way the eyes follow you when you don’t move.”

    Five trees stand side by side in a pasture looking up at a mountain obscured by fog.

  • Looking back through the storm photos for shots I didn’t get to. First view in the morning.

    A snow covered street fills the foreground while a high mountain face rises behind.

  • Sometimes snowfall obscures, sometimes it reveals.

    Snow covers a satellite dish and some shipping palettes.

  • Lenticular cloud stacks always look like Saturday morning pancakes to me.

    Grey lenticular clouds are stacked vertically.

  • The swoop of Wheeler Crest overlapping Pine Creek Canyon is one of my favorite bits of the scenery here.

    A mountain ridge lit by sunlight slopes down from the right, while mountains and storm fill the background.

  • Hiking with Michael at Hot Creek.

  • Pink cap on the Gables.

    Mountains at the far side of a valley are covered by pink clouds.

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