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Some sunsets have clouds, some sunsets are yellow. This one has a crazy shade of purple and a joshua tree. I used a flash and a green gel to light the tree up in a color that offset the sunset. It worked even better than I expected!

I’m not going to lie, I was hoping for some big puffy clouds and a classic sunset when I was driving up to Crater Lake. What I got was a clear night, with a side of forest fires. The fires are horrible, but they did mean there was one moment when the sun left these streaks in the sky just after sunset.

First came the rain, then the sun went down, and then the sky turned a crazy shade of orange. This might just be the top level of a parking garage, but the combination of the reflective concrete, the orange sky and a plane flying in the distance make this a fun shot.

I saw lots of monkeys in Costa Rica, Capuchin, Howler and Squirrel Monkeys. Some of them were even nice photos, but most were not that unique. A trip to a restaurant with a patio that was high up in the trees meant a different angle. The monkeys were up in a tree but still below where I was, and looking up at me instead of the other way around.

This ornament was originally my dad’s. It was designed to hold a light that is bigger than the ones on my tree, but I liked the way it shines and made it work. Merry Christmas!

You can stay out on the water all day, but some days you end up racing the sun home.

I knew this there would be a crescent moon, but I didn’t know I’d get a nice sunset to go along with it.

This isn’t my actual backyard, but it was for one great weekend in Eastern Washington. Not a bad place to spend some time and take in a few sunsets!

This moth was so interested in the flower, he didn’t even notice me sticking my lens in his face.

I’ve been thinking about the lack of scuba diving in my life recently, so I decided to process this photo of some corals. Like most things underwater, it wasn’t very interesting until I lit it up with my strobe, and then the colors other than blue really started to show.