Looking For Rain
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Looking For Rain
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
A little bird perched on top of a giant Saguaro cactus appears to be hopefully looking for rain...
The Sonoran Desert averages only three to fifteen inches of rain a year. In the Arizona Upland subdivision of the Sonoran Desert, rain falls about equally in two rainy seasons, a winter one in December and January, and a summer one in July through early September. August, September and December are the regions wettest months, May and June the driest. While there are local variations depending on elevation and proximity to mountains, this pattern basically is the same for the entire area.
Rainfall is infrequent, undependable and does not fall evenly. Summer rainfall may be recorded in small increments, but often the rain falls in a few large storms. It isn’t unusual for a single storm to produce fifty percent of the rain that typically falls in a year. Desert towns like Yuma are some of the driest places on earth, averaging about 3 inches of moisture a year. Still deluges in the past have dumped over four inches in a single day.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Your finished photograph will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
Image copyright 2022 Jon Burch Photography.
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April 9th, 2022
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