Desert Snow

[Ellen E]

very cool shot! love the layers and the saguaro

[Laura Demko]

that is gorgeous! love the saguaro in the foreground and the snow in the background. great eye.

[Rick Schies]

That seems like it would be a very unusual scene in the desert. It is quite beautiful

[Britt Gow]

Great landscape - quite unlike anything we see in Australia!

[Melissa Kraemer]

Love the landscape its beautiful

[Nod]

Nice capture. Like the cloud over the mountains!

[Pam Hawkes]

Awesome capture.

[Krissy]

That's really beautiful.

[Susan]

Sand, mountains, clouds, cactus & snow all in one photo . . . gorgeous!

[Heidi Gurov]

So pretty!

[Robert Velten]

Great landscape! A rare event captured in your first winter there! Did you get to play in the snow at all?

[Peggy Scroggins]

Doesn't get any better than this photo.

[Pankaj Sharma]

Fabulous shot Kerri...wonderful landscape you have captured.

[Della]

gorgeous :)

[Ellen E]

Hi again -- I just replied to your question, but in case you don't see the notifications -- I'll paste it here too:

I just use the “tilt-shift” feature built-in to my point-and-shoot. (My husband uses a real tilt-shift lens.) One of the effects of using tilt-shift can be a miniaturizing effect. I didn’t quite get that here, but I liked the dreamy look of it. Here is a photo I took of a ride at Disneyland that totally looks miniature: http://doublee.shutterfly.com/pictures/348#353

If you don’t have the feature built in to your camera, you can also send in your photos to tiltshiftmaker.com to convert them to tilt-shift (has to be the right kind of photo to work properly).

[Saira Priest]

Simply stunning!

[Lynn]

Lovely. Was this in Tucson? We had some up towards Bartlett Lake and I took the kids to enjoy. Great shot! :)

[Jennifer B.]

Oh gorgeous! Such a contrast.

[Margaret Tryon]

Wonderful landscape. Gorgeous shot.

[joey d.Muli]

dreamscape !!

[Nancy Holte]

Beautiful!

[Paul Myers]

Wonderful shot Kerri. I can remember driving through New Mexico along I-40 with snow coming down. The desert looks so surreal with snow.

[stephanie dp]

wow - scenery doesn't get much more dramatic than this! just beautiful!

[Kimberly Mitchell]

Such a great scene! Great job with the composition.

[Eva Needham]

Love the contrasts

[june milner]

Wonderful shot.

[Oleta Clouse]

Beautiful desertscape!!

[Yuliya]

wonderful landscape! beautiful!

[cglist]

Beautifully composed!

[Kathryn Marshall]

Beautiful. Nicely composed. A photo full of serenity and of action.

[Marinade Spatula]

Beautiful tones and texture and so unexpected to see cactus with snowy mountains - fabulous image. Love the clouds too.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Very pretty. Reminds me of a time when we drove from Phoenix to Flagstaff, AZ.

[J A Byrdlip]

A classic shot.

[Pyrrhula]

beautiful dessert and a great oic of it. love the coulours of the dessert and mountains and those beautiful clouds

[Constance Brinkley]

Fantastic shot.

[Isis Weiss]

Gorgeous!!! Love this one!

[scooter]

That is beautiful!!!

[Naomi]

This is lovely and interesting :]

[Allison Williams]

I love this scene It is so exotic to me. A beautiful landscape.

[Yoori]

What a beautiful landscape! Perfectly composed :)

[Anastasia]

Love the composition. Beautiful shot.

[AEG]

Lovely!

[Pamela Mandeville]

Really neat photo! Love the white clouds. It's interesting that it's a little hard to tell the scale of things.

[Joni Resa]

Love all the layers in this photo. Sometimes the desert can be so beautiful ... I live in a desert as well.

[Bugik]

Wow, simply breathtaking. It's even more beautiful in zoom. A fav!

[aikiuser (jenn)]

Wow! Where is this, looks like the Eastern Sierra in California. SO beautiful, really great shot!!

[Kerri]

@lynnaw Yup, Tucson AZ! Where is Bartlett Lake?

[Lynn]

Bartlett Lake is just NE of Scottsdale. It's desert, so snow there is rare. But don't you just love seeing the snow on the cacti?!!

[Kerri]

@lynnaw Very cool!! I was so excited to see the snow

[Lynn M. Watson]

Stunning!