A-10s on final

A pair of A-10s are on final into DM over the UofA campus just before sunset last Thursday night. This image was taken at 300mm focal length with an exposure of 1/500 seconds at f/8, ISO 400.

Dear Deers

After a few moments, the deer and her friend decided they'd have enough of this deer watcher and ran across the hillside.

Dear Deer

On the way up the windy mountain road to Kitt Peak, I surprised this deer who was in the road when I first saw her. She ran up the side of the hill a ways and stopped, so I pulled over and took her picture using my Canon A570is.

Stormy Sunset - the southwest ridge

Stormclouds move across the desert beyond the southwest ridge of Kitt Peak. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure of 1/40 seconds at f/8, ISO 400.

Last view of the photosphere...

The sun makes its final appearance an instant before disappearing below the horizon. This image was taken at 55mm focal length with an exposure of 1/200 seconds at f/8, ISO 400.

Stormy Sunset, colorful domes

The Spacewatch 36 inch telescope dome is in the foreground lit by the sunset with storm clouds in the background. The Kitt Peak 36 inch telescope, visitors center 16 inch dome and WIYN telescope domes (left to right) are on the south ridge in the background. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with and exposure of 1/50 seconds at f/8, ISO 400.

Colorful sunset

It always pays to look around when you're taking pictures. This view towards the north shows the Kitt Peak 4-meter Mayall Telescope and the Steward Observatory 90 inch Bok Telescopes lit by the setting sun. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure of 1/80 seconds at f/8, ISO 400.

Rain in the desert

It's raining in the distance as the sun sets. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure 1/50 seconds at f/8, ISO 400.

Stormy Sunset - portrait view

Did I say that the clouds were spectacularly lit by the setting sun? It was all I could do to run around snapping picture after picture of the changing colors. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure of 1/100 seconds at f/8, ISO 400.

Stormy Sunset - looking southeast

This view towards the southeast shows spectacular lighting with shadows across the clouds and color galor. The spacewatch 1.8-m telescope dome is on the right with the McMath solar telescope in the distance. This image was taken at 24mm focal length with an exposure of 1/25 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

Spectacular Sunset

Last nights sunset was simply spectacular from Kitt Peak. The brewing storm filled the sky with clouds but the sun was able to peek through providing spectacular light. This image was taken at 24mm focal length with an exposure of 1/50 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

Stormy Sunset

Kitt Peak got hammered by a couple storms last night. This one was right at sunset. Gotta love some good lightning bolts - especially when they don't hit you. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure of 10 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.