Dobson Central Photography

I had a fun weekend. We took a drive down to Lochiel, Az this past Friday for the weekend and I was able to get in some photography time along with riding a Honda 250 4-stroke quad that my sister now owns. We were going to stay the whole weekend, however, due to the weather and some uncomfortable sleeping arrangements, we all decided to come back a day early. We plan on going back in a few weeks, once everything starts to get green down there. I already have a couple of spots picked out for some possible landscape photos for our next visit, if the weather and sunsets are better. I’ve posted a couple of photos in the gallery from this trip.

For those of you who enjoy getting out into the country and are avid bird watchers, there are a whole slew of birds down in Lochiel. Campgrounds are available over at Parker Canyon lake if you want to stay a few days. Lochiel is about a half hour drive away and it’s all open country. It was in the open country where I was able to photograph the mule deer. Lochiel is the first spot in Arizona that I have ever seen this many turkey vultures and peregrine falcons at one time. There were a whole bunch of other birds that I wasn’t able to identify or photograph but plan to, if opportunity presents itself and the birds will stay in one spot long enough. I didn’t get to see any owls this time around, but I did hear them at night. I also managed to capture a peregrine falcon in flight (below) and a cute looking calf. The falcon wasn’t good enough to enlarge so I didn’t put it in the gallery. Even though these aren’t in the gallery, they’re worth sharing here in the news. Click on the images to see the larger version.

I received this in an e-mail message a month or so ago. For those that don’t have the time to get out and take some photos, I guess you can resort to filming Superman.

Superman Photography Game

I just returned from a family vacation in San Diego a couple days ago. Overall, the trip was great. Tiring, but great. It’s amazing when you go on vacation, you always feel more tired and need a vacation from your vacation when you return. The weather was awesome. I believe it was in the mid 70’s while we were there, and Tucson was averaging 110 degrees. I didn’t get to spend a lot of time photographing what I like. Most of the time it was spent taking family snapshots at Sea World and Lego Land. While at the beach on our last day, I did get a few shots of some seagulls and pelicans. Coincidentally, we ended up sitting next to another photographer at the beach. Her kids and my son ended up spending a few hours playing, so it was pretty relaxing for us to just kick back and enjoy the quiet afternoon. Overall, I’d like to go back to Mission Beach and just shoot some photography down by the boardwalk. There appears to be lots of photo opportunities down there.

Since we arrived home, I haven’t had much time to process any photos yet. The following morning, I was back up at 4am and went downtown shooting more architecture shots with my mom. Later on in the day, we threw a BBQ/Pool party for the family and today I was helping my sister move. So, even though I’m on vacation, it seems that we have to go back to work, so we can get back to our regular schedules and get things done again.

Hopefully everyone had a great 4th of July. In the next week, I hope to have some time to process the photos and post some of the good ones from downtown. Stay tuned. . .