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no trips lately, so this page is still under construction… check back soon. In the meantime, enjoy some photos of Tucson sunsets and stormy skies.



Tucson skies
(uncropped, unedited, all taken with an iPhone 4s [prior to summer 2016] or with either an iPhone 4s or iPhone SE [up until February 2022], or subsequently, with probably my iPhone 12 mini, but possibly with my still limping along iPhone SE).

Tucson sunset 1

Tucson stormy sunset, 20 August 2012, 19:15

 


Tucson sunset 2

Tucson stormy sunset (from the top of the Tyndall parking garage), 31 August 2012, 18:52

 

Tucson sunset 3

Tucson stormy sunset (from the top of the Tyndall parking garage; zoomed in a bit from previous photo. I like how the slight graininess of the photo gives it an almost watercolor quality), 31 August 2012, 18:54

 


Tucson sunset 4

Tucson stormy sunset (the return from Bear Canyon), 09 July 2013, 19:30

 


Tucson sunset 5

Tucson stormy sunset (looking S from my old house; the quarter moon is visible in the upper left), 15 August 2013, 18:48

 

Tucson sunset 6

Tucson stormy sunset (looking E over my old house), 15 August 2013, 18:49

 

Tucson sunset 7

Tucson stormy sunset, 15 August 2013, 19:11

 


Tucson sunset 8

Tucson stormy sunset (looking SE, leaving campus), 15 August 2014, 19:04

 

Tucson sunset 9

Tucson stormy sunset (same rainbow as in the previous photo… half way home), 15 August 2014, 19:08

 

Tucson sunset 10

Tucson stormy sunset, 15 August 2014, 19:14

 


Tucson sunset 11

Tucson stormy sunset, 15 September 2014, 18:38
For those who enjoy seeing images in the clouds, is the figure on the right a lion, a dog, or maybe even Nessie? 🙂

 


Tucson sunset 12

Tucson stormy sunset, 21 October 2014, 17:48

 


Tucson sunset 13

Tucson stormy sunset, 04 November 2014, 17:31

 


Tucson sunset 14

Tucson stormy sunset, 15 November 2014, 17:30

 

Tucson sunset 15

Tucson stormy sunset, 15 November 2014, 17:31

 


Tucson sunset 16

Tucson stormy sunset, 28 June 2015, 19:40

 


Tucson sunset 17

Tucson stormy sunset, 14 July 2015, 19:37

 


Tucson sunset 18

Tucson stormy sunset (looking ESE, across my old house), 24 July 2015, 19:11

 


Tucson view 19

forest fire in Tucson’s Santa Catalina Mountains (looking N across UofA campus), 05 August 2015, 16:22
I jokingly tried to convince a few out-of-town non-geology friends that this was a volcano erupting… lol

 


Tucson sunset 20

Tucson stormy sunset (on my way home, looking NE), 09 October 2015, 17:57

 


Tucson sunset 21

Tucson stormy sunset, 15 October 2015, 17:52

 


Tucson sunset 22

Tucson stormy sunset (another photo with almost watercolor-like cloud textures), 09 December 2015, 17:32

 


Tucson sunset 23

Tucson stormy sunset, 21 December 2015, 17:24

 


Tucson view 24

low clouds surround Tucson’s Santa Catalina Mountains (looking N across UofA campus), 02 August 2016, 14:37
I especially like the cloud on the far right that looks like a pointy snow-covered peak

 


Tucson sunset 25

Tucson stormy sunset (on UofA campus looking E; photographed using HDR), 03 November 2016, 17:14

 


Tucson sunset 26

Tucson stormy sunset (on UofA campus looking W, between the Biosciences West building on the left, and McClelland Hall on the right), 05 December 2018, 17:25

 


Tucson sunset 27

Tucson stormy sunset (on UofA campus looking W across the Mall), 11 December 2018, 16:52