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In January 2014 I had the unique pleasure of witnessing a winter storm while out hiking in southeast Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park. In this photo, taken looking east, the storm is moving out but a storm cell remains on the right, the cloud-shrouded Virgin Mountains is in the left distance, and waterpockets in the foreground reflect both the blue and cloudy sky. This was shot in RAW using the Canon 40D and EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 lens, ISO 200, f/5.6 @ 1/120 sec.

The "great outdoors" has always been an important part of my life, even though I was born, raised and have a mailing address in Los Angeles' busy port town of San Pedro. I've hiked the country lanes and paths of Great Britain, bike toured thorough Europe for 6 months, backpacked in the Sierra Nevada, and "truck camped" around the western US for weeks at a time, taking in the scenery and places of solitude. I worked at a Kaiser hospital for 34 years, then retired in 2013 at age 56 and hit the road, living in my travel trailer; I’ve been on the road now since June 2013 and plan to keep on living with no fixed address for at least another 2 years. I spend most of the daylight hours hiking and photographing with either the Canon 40D DSLR and...