David C. | A Desert Dweller
I'm a Las Cruces NM ecoregion junkie, design aficionado, and organizer. Trend-proof is my style. My day job is a horticultural consultant and designer, following 30 years in landscape architecture, over 3 years as a county planner, and overlapped by 20 years as a landscape architect in a solo practice. My arid spot on the earth is USDA Zone 8b / Sunset Zone 10
You can click on many of my images to enlarge. Unless noted, all are mine; thanks for *not* reusing images or content. Feel free to do so with credit to me or simply by asking.
If the day’s weather and my post relate, I extrapolate nearby weather conditions for my house. That date’s high and low temperature with any precipitation are listed.
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My camera is a Nikon D3400 DSLR (digital, not film), and it’s used for most photos in It’s a Dry Heat. The standard lens is an 18-55 mm; sometimes I use the 70-300 mm telephoto lens.
Some images are from my iPhone 13 mini or an old Nikon Coolpix S3700 handheld camera. Rarely I include scanned prints from my HP Officejet Pro 7740.
I do minimal or no processing, treating light and shadow as my friends. Working in the desert, I often have to shoot into intense sun and shadow, even midday light. Adobe Photoshop is used to adjust an image that’s different than what I saw.
No matter what, I first capture the big picture before any details.