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  • Spring Cactus Blossom Part 2- Spring 2023

    April 30, 2024 /

    Hi everyone! I needed to take a break from posting for a while due to personal reasons. (AKA a busy life!) I still have quite a lot backlogged photographs from Spring 2023, so I wanted to continue posting them! This post features photos of Engelmann’s Hedgehog Cactus. I still have many other photographs I will be posting of theses cacti. If you enjoy looking at the photographs of this type of cactus, please keep an eye out for those posts. They will be coming in the next few weeks. Enjoy!

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  • Summer Solstice 2023 Desert Sunset Photographs Part 1

    June 26, 2023 /

    Hi everyone! Last week was the Summer Solstice, AKA the first day of summer! It wasn’t as hot as it normally would be this time of year. It was a really nice change of pace for anyone living in Arizona! Despite the lack of the normal temperatures, it was still hot outside. The temperatures forced me to say inside most of the day. This is why I was so surprised when I looked outside my window at sunset and saw a beautiful sunset sky! After debating if I should or shouldn’t go outside, I decided to grab my camera and headed to my relative’s property to photograph the sunset. I…

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  • Florence-Kelvin Highway Photographs- December 2020 Part 1

    May 6, 2021 /

    It’s been quite a while since I posted photographs on my blog. I was able to take photographs of the outdoors for the past few months, but I never had the chance to edit them. This past month, I was able to have enough time to edit them. Not all the photographs I took are finished editing, but I was able to finish editing some of them. Some of the photographs I recently finished editing are photographs I took of the Florence-Kelvin Highway. I started to take photographs of the Florence-Kelvin Highway in Arizona in December 2020. I needed to spend more time away from the area where I currently…

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  • Desert Highway Spring Blossom Photographs- March 15, 2020

    May 21, 2020 /

    On March 15, while on my way home from running errands, I decided to do something I wanted to do since January: Pull off on the side of the road and take photographs of the wildflowers. There was a road not too far from where I live that was perfect to do this. It was quiet, less populated, and had beautiful scenery. After traveling to the road and pulling off the side of the road, I crossed to the other side to take photographs of some of the flowers. Before I made it all the way across, I took a photograph of what the road looked like that day… Like…

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  • Hiking Desert Photographs- May 2019

    September 26, 2019 /

    Today’s post is the last photography post from May! There isn’t a lot of exciting photographs to share, but I am happy with the way they turned out.

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  • Woodpecker Photographs- May 18, 2019

    September 24, 2019 /

    While on a hike in May, I found a woodpecker sitting on a metal fixture. It didn’t seem to mind me because it stayed on it’s perch while I walked towards it. Since I had my camera with me, I decide to take some photographs of it. That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

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  • Quail and Moon Photographs- May 2019

    September 19, 2019 /

    I went for many hikes during the month of May. I try to hike when it’s coolest because it’s dangerous to hike during the heat of an Arizona mid day. During May, I would hike during the sunset because, even though it wasn’t the coolest part of the day, it was the time of the day when the most animals would be out. On multiple hikes, I would see quail running around and enjoying the cooler weather. After seeing the quail multiple times, I decided to take my camera with me to take photographs of them. Here is one quail sitting on a metal bar… And the same quail (I…

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  • End of Season Cactus Blossom Photographs- May 18, 2019

    September 17, 2019 /

    In May, I went for a hike and found some of the cactus blossoms already began to wilt. It was near the end of the cactus blossoms season so I missed taking photographs of the blossoms, so I took photographs of the cactus blossoms before the season was over. As you can probably tell, I didn’t take many photographs. This is because most of the blossoms already fell off the cactus, leaving me without very much to photograph. That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

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  • Rabbit Photographs- July 14, 2019

    September 12, 2019 /

    Hi everyone! In July, I found some rabbits near where I like to hike. Although I’ve seen rabbits outside before, this was the first time I saw one lay down. Because I thought they looked cute, I decided to take some photographs of the rabbits that day. When I edited the photographs, I realized some of the photographs turned out darker than I wanted them to. Even though I tried to edit them to look the way I want them to look, I gave up and decided to share the photographs even though they are darker than I’d like. Well, that’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

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  • Cactus Blossoms Part 4- May 18, 2019

    September 10, 2019 /

    While hiking, I saw a few saguaro cacti that had blossoms. At that time, it was near the end of the blossom season, so I started to take as many photographs of the blossoms before they went away for the year. That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

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