Western sunset in Saguaro national park

Saguaro National Park, Arizona

Southwest Sentinels

The day had started at Taliesin West, walking through Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio in Scottsdale, and ended two hundred miles south with the pair of us sitting in the scrub in the west district waiting for the light to go.

It was my wife’s birthday trip — Joshua Tree and Phoenix, with Saguaro as a day run down to Tucson — and we’d walked the Hugh Norris loop in the afternoon. I hadn’t expected anything weather-wise from the evening. Nothing about the sky suggested it.

Then it went. Gold, orange, pink, lavender and blue all at once and all in the same frame, and it kept giving right through into blue hour. I’ve had a handful of sunsets like that in my life and I don’t think I’ve had another this good while away from home.

Staying out for a sky like that has a cost, which is that you finish the trail in the dark. I keep a couple of headlamps in the camera bag for exactly this, and we walked out under their light.

Nikon D7200 · Nikkor 18-35mm · 23mm · f/5.6 · 1/5 sec · ISO 100

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