Imperial Sand Dunes

We had a short shoot at the Imperial Sand Dunes outside Yuma, AZ over Thanksgiving holiday.  A little windy so the sand was an issue but other than that the weather was wonderful. 

The last one is an outtake but the shadow is too funny-

she looks like a cartoon character.

Saturday afternoon

We are finally seeing the signs of fall in southern Arizona.  Beautiful days- mid 70's and cool evenings!  Perfect for being outside!  Saturday afternoon I followed C and S around the property to try some off camera flash ideas.  We had fun and I realized I need to purchase stronger/sturdier shoot through umbrellas as a couple of topple overs and the one I was using bit the dust - literally- 
They both liked the following image~

Emerging

I had a couple of Desert Museum(http://www.desertmuseum.org/) passes to use by the end of the month so C & I decided to go check out the butterfly festival this past Sunday. 

Really interesting and an unbelievable amount of butterflies flying around the park. 

We wandered into an educational building just in time to see a butterfly emerge! 

 



Randomness

Light painting and flashing fun ~

Scott Kelby 3rd annual photowalk

C and I decided to participate in the 3rd annual Scott Kelby photowalk http://worldwidephotowalk.com/
We joined up with the Tucson Desert Museum group - http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/tucson-az-united-states-arizona-sonora-desert-museum-2/ and had a great evening wandering the park!  Check out the Desert Museums site - http://www.desertmuseum.org/ Saturday summer evenings at the park is a must do as it was really nice out, some of the animals were up and about and the sunset from there is gorgeous!

This guy really blends in!

Finding scorpions at night was alot of fun-there were kids and adults with hand held black lights looking around rocks and cracks for the scorpion "glow"