I'm really enjoying my trip to the Southwest, largely in part to the people and natives that I have met along my travels. Of course it helps to go with fellow photographer David Thompson, thanks David for the miles and miles of exercise and showing me the area!! As I was shooting the badlands of New Mexico, I was lucky enough to capture some Virga is an observable streak or shaft of precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates or sublimes before reaching the ground, what a beautiful sight. On this particular evening I was alone with my yorkie photographing this very isolated area. I have to admit I was eager to capture this large storm cloud before quickly hitting the ground and running back to the car. Out there you will find that a lot of these areas are accessible by dirt roads only and as you can imagine what usually happens to dirt roads in heavy rains, it washes the roads completely away which quickly becomes a recipe for being stranded. You would have laughed watching me carrying my yorkie, camera gear and literally running as fast as I could to get back to my car which was a mile or so away so I could get the heck out of dodge before the storm came through. All in all, I couldn't have asked for a better time while scouting and photographing this fantasy world of strange rock formations made of inter-bedded sandstone, shale, mud-stone, coal, and silt.
Virga on the Horizon **Best Viewed on Black**
