Chasing First Light

 July 27, 2025

   Still chasing early morning light. 

Daily Whip Out: "First Light On The Creek"

   I am obsessed with this scene because every morning when I go out for my walk with Uno at 5:45 I see this.

Actual First Light On Elephant Butte

   As you can clearly see, from my phone shot, those canyon walls on Elephant Butte are pretty spectacular and, so far, they have resisted my attempts at capturing them accurately. True,  I have some serious sketches but it's a math problem I haven't quite figured out yet.

First Light Sketches #37, #38

First Light at Top, #39

Daily Whip Out:

"Superstitions First Light Study"

"Everything is angles and geometry."

—Jerry Seinfeld