Rainfall, High Desert

Black and white photograph of a dramatic sky over a flat desert landscape, with a heavy rain shaft falling from dark clouds near a distant mesa.

Rainfall, High Desert

A dense column of rain descends beneath a vast, turbulent sky.

About the photograph

A monumental sky dominates the frame, its layered clouds rendered in shifting greyscales. The land is reduced to a thin, textured band, while a single mesa anchors the horizon beneath a curtain of rain—weather made architectural, dwarfing the desert below.

Technical details

Camera
PENTAX PENTAX K-5
Lens
smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR
Focal length
26.25mm
Aperture
f/22
Shutter
1/80s
ISO
80
Captured
September 4, 2014
More context
dramatic sky (9)fine art photography (7)storm clouds (3)weather (3)black and white landscape (1)desert rain (1)high desert (1)mesa (1)

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