Sunrise at Four Peaks Size:18"x12" Take time to look around

Take time to look around

The image got me to thinking about a poem by Suzy Kassem in which she talks about the sunrise and sunset of our lives

Just a feeling of an intimate connection to God as we both played out our existence on this planet

But these were not the characteristics that prompted me to take the picture

Sunrise at Four Peaks Size:18"x12" Take time to look aroundWhen I go out into the desert to photograph wild horses I like to get to my location just before sunrise. On this particular day in Tonto National Forest the sun was just beginning to come up behind a mountain range called the Four Peaks. I dont know if I have ever seen a sky so dramatic as this one, I just had to try and photograph it even though the mountain range itself was going to be severely underexposed. I wanted that sky!! To my surprise I was