This is from almost a week ago out in Joshua Tree National Park. Once I had woken up to a clearing of the snow storm around 3am and shot the classic rock and Juniper in Jumbo Rocks until 4am, I decided to run over to Arch Rock real quick and see what it looked like. It was about a 15 to 20 min drive, and the stars were still showing. Because of how Arch Rock sits, I didn't think it would be blanketed in snow like it was at the Jumbo Rocks. And I was right, the Arch itself, did show some snow, but it wasn't blanketed.
I did have to be careful climbing up the rock shelf opposite it where you shoot Arch Rock from, because there was snow on the ground on that side. I shot this for about 20 minutes before the snow storm started to move back in. As I hiked back to my Jeep, snow was beginning to fall again. On the drive back to Jumbo Rocks, it was like the snow storm just decided down to ground level. The almost full moon was lost, visibility was down to around 60 or 70 feet, and it began to full on snow again.
As a reminder, the almost full moon was out and lighting up this scene. It's a one shot image. ISO 400 at f1.8 at 13 secs.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
I did have to be careful climbing up the rock shelf opposite it where you shoot Arch Rock from, because there was snow on the ground on that side. I shot this for about 20 minutes before the snow storm started to move back in. As I hiked back to my Jeep, snow was beginning to fall again. On the drive back to Jumbo Rocks, it was like the snow storm just decided down to ground level. The almost full moon was lost, visibility was down to around 60 or 70 feet, and it began to full on snow again.
As a reminder, the almost full moon was out and lighting up this scene. It's a one shot image. ISO 400 at f1.8 at 13 secs.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
