Sunrise With Silhouetted Palm Trees
by Robert Bales
Title
Sunrise With Silhouetted Palm Trees
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
This is the view from our house looking at the Gila Mountains from the Foothill, Arizona which is a few miles from Yuma. It seems like we have many sunrises like this one during the winter months.
The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a 26-mile (42 km) long mountain range in southwestern Arizona in the northwest Sonoran Desert.
The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a northwest-southeast trending mountain system. The fault-blocked mountain range is attached on the south to the Tinajas Altas Mountains which continue southeast into Sonora, Mexico for another 30 miles. The northwest end of the mountains border the southeast Laguna Mountains. The Gila River flows through the Gila Valley between the Gilas and the Lagunas prior to its confluence with the Colorado.
The Gila Mountains are southeast of the confluence of the Colorado and Gila rivers in the Lower Colorado River Valley. The Gila River flows northwest, north around the mountain's north end, then west six miles to the Colorado. On the northeast side of the Gila Range, the low-elevation basin, Dome Valley is created between the Muggins Mountains and the Muggins Mountains Wilderness to the northeast. The block faulted mountain series ends at this confluence location and the Muggins Mountains are at the southern and southwest end of an extensive plain that transitions north towards the Castle Dome Plain and Castle Dome Mountains. This plain is the location of the US Army Yuma Proving Ground on this east-west alluvial plain.
The highest peak in the arid and rugged Gila Mountains is Sheep Peak at 3,156 feet (962 m). The mountain range lies east of Yuma and the community of Fortuna Foothills lies on the northwest mountain range foothills, (named for the Fortuna Mine). The mountain range is located in the western portion of the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range which is used by the MCAS, the Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma.
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January 15th, 2019
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Comments (27)
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations on your Feature, in "Beautiful Trees", "Just Perfect", "No Place Like Home", & "Your Story of Art", groups!
RjFxx at beautifullart com
WONDERFUL powerful creative Sunrise!!! Excellent work! Adding my LIKE now!
Jenny Revitz Soper
CONGRATULATIONS! This delightful piece has been FEATURED on the homepage of the FAA Artist Group No Place Like Home, 2/22/2019! Way to go! Please post it in the Group's Features discussion thread for posterity and/or any other thread that fits!
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
I love the colours and composition of this sensational image Robert!! the clouds and the sky is absolutely heavenly. Wow what a great shot!! L/F
Morris Finkelstein
Beautiful Arizona sunrise photograph with great colors, light and shadows, and perspective, Robert! F/L
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"