Monsoon Season 2022

It’s monsoon season here in Phoenix, and we’ve had multiple days of strong winds, rains, flooding, and thunderstorms. I got off work a little after 3 am on Thursday morning and was treated to quite the light show on my drive home so I ran around until about 8 both at home and south mountain taking in the storm.

Location: 33°27'20.91" N 112°4'15.396" W // Go To Location

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Camera Body: Canon EOS R3

Camera Lens: Canon RF 14-35 f4

Tripod: Peak Design Travel Tripod

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NYE

I had no plans for New Year’s Eve but we did have some storms rolling through so I headed out to South Mountain to grab this shot of the radio towers being partially obscured by the cloud layer.

Location: 33°20'27.684" N 112°3'15.246" W

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Superstition Nights

Our monsoon season has pretty much ended here in Phoenix, but we had storms roll through on and off a few days ago. After watching the show from home for a while I decided I needed to get out and capture the scene from somewhere other than my own bedroom window. I headed out to the Superstition Mountains about 3am and stayed there until just after 6 as the storm was abating the light from the day started affecting my long exposures. This image is a 3 shot blend that I thought worked best, but there certainly wasn’t a shortage of amazing photos to be had.

Location: 33°26'51.138" N 111°30'8.178" W

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Storm Front

I’m not going to lie. These are not the best photos. The composition is horrendous and other then the obvious I don’t feel like these photos tell much of a story. Sometimes, however, the power of the subject matter alone is such that average to below-average photos become acceptable. I for one would rather look at stunning subject matter shot so/so then tedious or boring content shot extremely well. We had, what I (not an Arizona native) would call, our first real storm of monsoon season today…….and it was awesome.

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Each photo was created by stacking 9 exposures on top of each other.

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