Moody Creekbed
by Chance Kafka
Title
Moody Creekbed
Artist
Chance Kafka
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
On February 22, 2019, snow fell for the first time in the Tucson metro since I had lived there. I rare sight indeed, I headed to the Finger Rock Trailhead at the end of North Avernon Way in the Catalina Foothills to capture the event. While the snow had already melted in the foothills, it was still snowing lightly and the towering picks of the Santa Catalina Mountains, including Mount Kimball and Finger Rock, were covered in snow. I hiked down to this area featuring a dry wash or creek bed that was flowing with some water from the snow melt and captured it receding back to the snowy peaks. The lush green brittle brush and distant saguaro cacti for a wonderful contrast to the snow capped Santa Catalina Mountains. This spectacular scene in the Sonoran Desert combines winter with spring and is a rare sight to see. It is one of my personal favorites.
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February 22nd, 2019
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Comments (56)
Randy Burns
Chance, this excellent landscape with a great narrative title brings up longings and thoughts of the desert I have had in dreams. Love this. F/L/TW.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit.
Karoly Jeszmas
I really love how we are leaded from the muddy roads to the gorgeous snowy mountains,
Bari Rhys
Cool to see the change in the landscape from desert flora, to snow covered peaks, nice shot!
Ginger Stein
Change in light from front to back and leading line are key elements. Great shot!
Chance Kafka replied:
thank you so much for this comment and observation of the composition I was going for!
Joe Schofield
Wonderful POV, Chance. A long ascent ahead. It that Mt. Lemon? l/f
Chance Kafka replied:
Thanks for the comment Joe! It is a flank of Mount Kimball, which sits along the southern face of the Catalina Mountains - Mount Lemmon is above and behind these peaks but locals commonly refer to the entire range as Mount Lemmon even if that's not technically correct. So technically no, but depends on who you ask!