Jake Case — Mountain Tripper

BTW, this is a two image composite to get something close to what my eyes actually saw. To expose the moon properly, everything else is black. To expose the saguaro silhouette properly, the moon gets completely blown out. Put the two together will some Photoshop magic to blend them seamlessly.

A little break from the atrocities of the world. The other night I went out to the desert on a whim to shoot the full moon rising by my favorite saguaro.

That’s it!!! 😮

I thought this branch of a Joshua Tree looked like a bird. Or maybe a giraffe. Or a creation from the mind of Dr. Suess. Open to other interpretations as well.

Risk?? Risk??? He achieved the Seat of Criminality level during his first term. Apparently Justice Jackson only defines criminality as tanking the economy.

near Loch Maree

Standing strong

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Honestly, it's an acceleration for ICE, but the racial profiling, the weird treating people like meat, the checkpoints, all that is straight up normal day CBP in the SW border in my experience. Ramped up to sending death squads into cities instead of only at the border.

Dust, Downbursts, and Drama: Storm Chasing in the American Southwest The American Southwest monsoon season is one of the most dramatic weather events on Earth, and landscape photographer Jake Case is right in the heart of it. In this episode, we dive into storm chasing...

Kicking off the new year with a thunderous bang talking storm chasing and weather photography with @jakecasephoto.bsky.social discussing mindset, planning, and tips. Be sure to tune in!

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Looking forward to sharing my conversation with @jakecasephoto.bsky.social about storm chasing photography and monsoon season in the American Southwest later this week. Be sure to tune in!

Thanks Diane!! Hope you had a great Christmas!

Hope you’re well Nicole!

It’s a foggy day here in Northern Arizona. Hope you all are well, my friends!

A photo I’ve never shared before from the Aurora Borealis on October 10th, 2024. This is a two image composite, one exposed for the sky and one for the foreground. I fired the shutter and I drove the car too. Good times during a rare night out in the Arizona desert.

If there’s one thing that photos don’t do justice, it’s meteors. IRL it’s like “Oh! There’s one!” but in the photo it just looks like a little lens scratch 🤷‍♂️ but anyway, here’s my best effort from the Geminids on Saturday night.

#Astrophotography #Geminids

See you have a natural talent for it

UnIntentional Camera Motion 😂

Lightning + UICM

Crack the sky.

#arizonamonsoon #stormchasing

A monochromatic elk for Monochrome Monday.

#ClassicMonochrome #WildlifePhotography

That one time I went comet hunting and the clouds hid the comet but put on a great sunset.

#Arizona #LandscapePhotography

“If you wanna end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.”

-Arlo Guthrie

Monochrome doesn’t just mean black and white!

#classicmonochrome

On a stormy day with much more structure and precip than bolts, I managed to catch this wild lightning strike northwest of Phoenix on Tuesday evening.

#azwx #stormchasing

Thanks Diane! Yeah shortly after I took this I had to run to the car because it started raining hail on me lol

Another look at the high-precipitation supercell that blasted over Phoenix at lunchtime on Tuesday.

#azwx #stormchasing

Sunset supercell over west Phoenix right now!!

#azwx

A refresh of one of my favorite lightning images of this past summer. Two big bolts touching down in Arizona’s Verde Valley on the evening of August 15th.

#azwx #stormphotography

Mammatus clouds over Interstate 8 near Gila Bend, Arizona back on July 2nd.

#azwx

Well this photo makes her out to be 😂