Bell Road Saguaro Metal Print

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It was late in the afternoon and I was chasing the light before the sun set. As I looked back into the town of Surprise I noticed a large hill right off the road that was used for off-road vehicle use (now banned in the White Tank Mountains). I also saw a group of saguaro with their majestic arms reaching into the sky. I thought that the saguaro would be just a silhouette in the bounce light of the setting sun. As I processed the image the detail in the cactus was captured and very clear in a properly exposed image.
Too often we fail to recognize the beauty of our close surroundings. I have passed that location literally hundreds of times and I always remember it for the back-lit cactus that was one of my first digital images.

I am an artist and photographer with more than twenty years of experience in the photographic arts, I started out in the film era developing my own black and white and color slides in a home darkroom in Tempe, Arizona. My nature and fine art images reflect my travels throughout the American Southwest with extensive photo excursions in Arizona, New Mexico and California. I photograph Major League Baseball Spring Training at Surprise Stadium, home of the Texas Rangers and the Kansas City Royals. My color images capture the brilliant greens and blues of nature, while my black and white images feature strong contrast utilizing techniques that present tack-sharp subjects with interesting composition. Many of my black and white...