Skywatch #34


LVGC0035, originally uploaded by M'roy.

On February 17, 2009 while vacationing in Vegas, we took a day trip to Grand Canyon NP, which is a four-hour drive. We left Vegas at 6 am. And along the way the Arizona sky is like I remembered it to be---glorious and filled with puffy white clouds. We just learned upon arriving at Grand Canyon that the rain we experienced in Vegas the previous day came down as snow in this part of Arizona, and so the ground was covered with fresh powder ---such a wonderful sight. But this is skywatch and I'm just showing you, well, sky and clouds.

Here's one of those many, many photos I took on the front seat of a car. It's a four-hour drive and you can imagine how many of these I took :D.

Here is where you can find more sky watch posts, SKYWATCH.

Comments

  1. Love starburst sun shots! Awesome capture! I hope you weren't driving... lol

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  2. Good skywatch capture, I too love the rays from the sun.

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  3. Ahhh, so beautiful! And I loved the Grand Canyon, too, when I was there. Nothing beats it...

    Have a good weekend!

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  4. Heavenly photo, its perfect.

    Have a great weekend!
    Guy
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  5. The best word for that is 'glory'!

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  6. The Arizona sky and the 1000 words flower are both special pictures. Love them.

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  7. Wow, I like the way that sky came out. Dramatic.

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  8. I understand what you mean. Sometimes, on a drive, the clouds are so dramatic that the landscape looks so great and interesting and exciting that you can't stop taking pictures!
    Hehe, come over for some red wine next time :)))

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  9. If this is an example, I'll look forward to the Grand Canyon ones.

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  10. Oh, so beautiful! You make me want to step into your sky!! :-D

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  11. Such a photograph, so beautiful! I love the colour of the sky. Some of my best memories are of road trips, and I have the photos to prove it lol

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  12. Wow, it's like a Fantasy image, real good !!!!!!

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  13. Really well done on photographing the sun! Heavenly.

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  14. That's wonderful. I love the color of the sky. Almost emerald.

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  15. Awesome capture!
    Happy sky watch!

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  16. Dramatic sky! Light and darkness!

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  17. Beautiful shot with the sun poking out and lining the clouds. We went to GCNP in 2002 as a family and loved it. Everyone should go and see that magnificnet canyon!
    Caprice

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  18. Beautiful sky! I had family at the Grand Canyon at the same time as your visit. Hummm! It would be funny if I saw them in your photo below.

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  19. This is very striking; well done. There is nothing like looking up!

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  20. Great skywatch photo! :o)

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  21. A great shot taken through the window!

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  22. Lovely, nuanced clouds in those skies. Thanks for sharing. :)

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  23. Beautiful. A long road trip is always shorter when you have a camera.

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  24. Ooh, very interesting shot. I'm guessing by where you snapped this from and how the photo looks around the sunstar that you captured this through the windshield, which gives it a great effect. The clouds look powerful and say a lot as well.

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  25. I love this photo. It has an unworldly feel to it, and that seems appropriate when you
    re driving to the Grand Canyon.

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  26. A super shot , reminding us once again that our sun is actually a star.

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  27. This is a very glorious skywatch photo, I would have loved to capture those too.

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  28. Beautiful sky - looks like it's on the move! Maybe it's been over my farm too. . . Thanks for stopping by.

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  29. Sweet! Thanks for sharing such a wonderful moment with us (and we wouldn't mind seeing the snow, we're not that picky). Happy SWF!

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  30. With that kind of sky captured, the 4 hours of drive made it so worthwhile already :)

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  31. That's the realm called heaven, right? Beautiful image....

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  32. What a lovely sky! It's OK that you didn't show us the snow. I did it for you on my blog. LOL

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  33. I love these big fluffy clouds too, white or gray. This is a wonderful shot. Love the sun coming from behind the could.

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  34. This is a great capture of the sky from the front seat of your car.
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  35. I like the way the windshield does that layer of it´s own before the cloud layer.

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  36. Great capture of light, tones and contrasts...so lovely!

    Quite dramatic looking.

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  37. Nice photo for SWF. Like you, I prefer the front seat of a car, prefer to be driven than drive. :) Have a nice weekend.

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  38. Amazing how crisp and clean a desert sky can be after rain.

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  39. This is awesome!
    I'm scared to point my camera toward the sun (just got a new one) but I love these shots. I guess I need to do some research. :)

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  40. wonderful sunburst! i could almost hear angels singing.:D

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  41. I like this shot of the brilliant sun and great clouds.
    The brilliance in Arizona is hard to beat! Nice one.

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  42. The starburst is amazing! Lovely shot.

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  43. That's a beautiful dramatic shot.
    Must be great to make such a drive while you're shooting sky pictures. Ending up at the Grand Canyon must be fantastic.
    Enjoy your weekend!

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  44. Awesome SkyWatch photo! I grew up in Arizona and lived there until 1993. Thanks!

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  45. Amazing!
    Lovely shot.
    Gr.
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  46. it sure is a bright sun! love those sun bursts!

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  47. outstanding photograph! very beautiful!

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  48. I am dying to go to the Grand Canyon but it's about 13 hrs for us! This an awesome shot you captured.

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  49. PC: What a neat shot with the rays coming from the sun into the clouds.

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  50. Wow!!! This is like "and God created the firmament, he made the sun and the clouds, and saw tht it was good! Love it a lot!!!

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  51. That's a lovely burst of sunshine.

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  52. so so cool! one can appreciate the mountains and the skies.

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  53. I have driven that trip from the west and the east. A lot of boring driving. Worth it for the scenery.

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  54. You were at the right place at the right time to catch that shot. Amazing!
    Joyce

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  55. I just found your blog, and I love your perspective! Great shot from the car--I do the same thing. Thank goodness for digital cameras, huh?
    K

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