This was one of my more memorable mornings from Tombstone territorial park in 2021.
My friend and I had scouted this area the day prior, and knowing that tombstone mountain would light up on a clear morning, we decided to give this spot a go on our second last morning in this area. We got up extra early and strolled out to this spot in darkness. Completely clear skies – good for mountain light, bad for any atmosphere – crap. We were initially a bit disappointed but we picked our compositions and set up anyway. The mountain top starts glowing bright red as the sun breaks the skyline behind us, and as that light travels down the mountain face, we see the faintest hint of hot pink clouds peeking out from behind the mountain. At that point it became a race – “can the clouds keep up this colour? Are they moving into the composition? They are! Go clouds!” We stuck around happily clicking away for what felt like hours (but was actually probably only a few minutes) until the clouds overwhelmed the scene and blocked the light on the mountain face. Luckily, we had moments like this where everything came together for a few minutes.
There’s nothing like watching a scene come together in front of you after you’ve lost hope. I was on a high all day long after that!