First Sunrise
by Robert Bales
Title
First Sunrise
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
This is the morning view of 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[1][2] 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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RONALD MILLS
This is spectacular! Nominating this wonderful capture in the 1000 Views Group for a Special Feature !
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 Views on One Image Group's Special Features Nominations For Promotion #24 . Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views on One Image Group....L/F/Tw
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks, Christopher for the feature, congrats, comments, invite, and promotion!
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! This amazing art has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of the FAA Group No Place Like Home, 11/11/2016! You are invited to to post it in the Features Discussion thread for posterity and any other thread that fits!
Robert Bales replied:
So sorry I missed this Jenny, but thanks for the feature and the invite along with the nice comments!!
Lucinda Walter
Congratulations! Your beautiful work is featured in the Beauty of Arizona group l/f
Robert Bales replied:
Sorry I missed this one Lucinda, but thanks for the congrats and the feature along with the fine promotion!!
John Bartelt
What a fantastic sunrise image, Robert! Well done ! l/f
Robert Bales replied:
Sorry I missed this one John, but thanks for the wonderful review and the LF!!