Red Hills

Spent a few minutes at Saguaro National Monument West this afternoon. The Red Hills Visitor center has a magnificent set of arched ceiling beams on the back porch that - at certain times of the year and certain times of the day - present some amazing shadows.

The mountain upon which Kitt Peak National Observatory resides - seen in Infrared light.

The reflection of the porch in the giftshop windows.

If you take the image below . . .

and perform a little transformation trick called "Magic Circle" . . .

You get this . . .

UMC Architecture

More from the front lines with the Canon 17mm TS-E lens - this evening - University Medical Center.



One problem with the 17mm - lens flare. Bright light sources as much as 40 degrees outside the field of view can produce lens flare in the large protruding front element. In the image below - the light source that produced the flare was 90 degrees to camera right!