I was in Tucson a couple of weeks ago and now that i'm about to post a few photos from there i'm reminded about my lack of foresight when it comes to displaying photos from a particular place of city. I have no photos of Tucson per se; it never occurs to me to photograph a city so that i can show the setting of the shoot. Just gotta remember that!

The second morning there a friend directed us to a parking lot in the hills outside of Tucson from which we could look across the city and plains to a raising sun. It was a spectral sunrise:

It was interesting to see the sky go from relatively dark to amazing colors of red, orange and yellows back to a somewhat subdued grey and white clouds as the sun rose higher and higher.

Eventually the sun's rays began to appear:

Part of the difficulties of presenting a series of a sunrise is to keep the changes consistent to their original appearance and not boast the colors, contrast, etc., or they lose their original value ... leastwise, they do to me. 

And eventually we have the, more or less, daytime grey and white clouds of full daylight

As you can see i didn't really think this series though before shooting. Once the sunrise begins so does the shooting and if i've not thought it though (which i hadn't) then capturing a coherent story falls to the wayside and i end up with some nice sunrise photos but not really a sunrise story.

SOoooo, that is somewhat the purpose of this blog ... to allow me to see how i'm progressing along the spectrum of "shooting to show" which is a title i just made up and rather like. Yes, i want to lear to "Shoot to Show" and will work towards that particular goal in and with this photo blog.

The area around Tucson is known for its Saguaro Cactus and even has a park dedicated to them: Saguaro Park.

 And this is how they end up ... all the outer skin falls off after a couple hundred years and they become 'Ghost Saguaro Cactus' and become very skeleton looking. Eventually even the dark skin falls off and the cactus looks like bamboo poles sticking into the air.

Sadly, i neglected to photograph any of those (which are rather rare for reasons i don't quite understand).