View Winner

Ultimate

randalpair

Fall cottonwoods along the Rio Puerco

Fall cottonwoods along the Rio Puerco

Edited - re-saved at higher resolution
I was in this area doing some plant inventory work. Cottonwoods can turn a nice yellow-orange in fall. This is WSW...
Read more

Edited - re-saved at higher resolution
I was in this area doing some plant inventory work. Cottonwoods can turn a nice yellow-orange in fall. This is WSW of Cuba, New Mexico, in the general area of Cabezon Peak.
Note - the smaller trees in the foreground are Tamarisks, or "salt cedars."
BTW - there are several "Rio Puercos" ('muddy river') in Arizona and New Mexico.
Read less

upload_date

Jul, 2019

Views

51

Likes

+2

Awards

Peer Award

Outstanding Creativity

Absolute Masterpiece

Top Ranks

Top 30 rank

Top 10 rank

Top 10 rank week 1

Top 10 rank

Categories

See all

Same photographer See all

Rincon Colorado in northern NM exhibits almost the entire color palette of Nature in New Mexico : geology (sandstone in white, yellow, peach; shales i

I was heading to shoot the full moon rising at Culebra Peak (also uploaded), when I caught this view of the Blanca Peak massif north of me. Beautiful

First snowfall in late autumn, on the North-facing slope of Grand Mesa in western Colorado.

Wrather Arch is a fairly large arch - about 250-feet across and 165-feet high. Anglos first saw it from the air - it is in a pretty inaccessible side-

Leading edge of a heavy thunderstorm, late afternoon. Barely visible on the horizon are top edges of wind turbines. South of Clines' Corner, New

Shot near a U.S. Forest Service cabin where I worked for a few months

Half of Double O Arch (I think). At any rate, one of the arches in Arches National Park, Utah, USA

Outside Carlsbad, New Mexico - looking out over Chihuahuan Desert.

Box elder trees provide a welcome green contrast to the red sandstone walls.

Rain lilies (Zephyranthes longifolia) are so called because they bloom within a week of the first summer rains. Within three weeks the seeds have set,

My mother's retrieving-obsessed Golden Retriever, in this case swimming after sticks thrown in a fast-flowing stream.

Vegetation studies near Crownpoint, NM, USA - on the Navajo Nation

March 1, 2018. This was my first effort to line up this shot using The Photographer's Ephemeris [Web app - thephotographersephemeris.com]. Appare

The mid-level cloud layer at the top of the frame is casting a shadow on the ground, with holes in the cloud and gaps in the ragged edges casting crep

Yosemite, June 1983 early spring after a heavy winter.

Near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA. Populus tremuloides.

Dark, heavy thunderstorm over the Peaks. Taken from the east side of the Peaks, northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Full moon of March 20, 2019; a perigee moon ("super moon").
The Blanca Peak massif lies adjacent to the Sangre de Christo mountains in sout

Discover more photos See all

Sunset in the highlands, Iceland by ericbettens

20230615-IMG_5060 by TatianaDaks

With the ocean by vleprutt

Photo by Katherinelynnphotography

Alex 1 by timdudgeon

Seraphina, Switzerland 2018 by Marcel_A_Vie

Julie the Graduate still Educating Herself by squarederic

Night colors at 1 am in the morning at midsummer in Iceland by HalldorJonsson

Piesd Shags form a Yin Yang sign by johankoch

Training at low level in the Mach Loop by kevinsale

... or how it's still awfully quiet in Amsterdam... by JeRoen_Murre

Sunset at High Level Park, Alberta by NVisual

Lviv, Ukraine by Myroslav

Photo by jmphotgraphy

Powder paint fun by pelsernj

Twas that night in a lensball by jacobjohnleyba

Reflection on the street about the G Palace in the city of Cienfuegos, after the rain by dainerysanchez

Description by ks_pics

It’s your time to shine! ☀️

Share photos. Enter contests to win great prizes.
Earn coins, get amazing rewards. Join for free.

Or

Already a member? Log In

By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Service, and acknowledge you've read our Privacy Policy Notice.