
Before I could get my camera out of its pack and myself out of my Jeep to aim my camera, Skywalker ceased his “wild stallion on a ridge against big, Western-sky clouds” pose with pal Sancho and headed down the ridge, following the rest of their band.

But before he disappeared, I managed to catch him in a good stride.
Some photo-geekiness for you: I rarely shoot in very low light, with high ISOs, but I had been doing just that the evening before. In my rush to get untangled and take advantage of the view, I didn’t check my camera’s settings. So the ISO was WAY high, and the shutter speed was WAY high, which accounts for the high-key look of the images. Still, that whole “wild stallion on a ridge against big, Western-sky clouds” thing. For the purposes of this blog, they work. 🙂
We like rising clouds out here because (a lot of times) they rise into thunderheads and promise rain – and sometimes even deliver. These (pictured) didn’t … here. Somewhere, maybe. Somewhere, hopefully. Sometime here, hopefully soon.