35mm Film Photography
Anza-Borrego Desert
35mm Film Gallery
The lower desert can change with extraordinary speed. Wildflowers may emerge after winter rain only to fade quickly when hot, dry weather arrives. These photographs follow those fleeting conditions through dawn fog, moonlight, shifting clouds and the first brilliant sunlight of the desert morning.
Several were made during an early 1998 bloom when an unusual blanket of fog settled over fields of sand verbena and other desert wildflowers, briefly transforming the landscape before the desert morning cleared.
This gallery is a small curated selection from a photographic archive spanning more than forty years and hundreds of images. Select a photograph below to enter its individual archive page with a larger image, technical details and Field Notes.
Anza-Borrego Desert
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Lifting Fog Over Sand Verbena
1998
Full Moon Over Sand Verbena
1998
Desert Sunflower in Morning Fog
1998
Dune Evening Primrose and Sand Verbena
1998
Morning Light in Anza-Borrego
1998
Ocotillo, Poppies and Lupines
2005
These photographs represent a small part of a much larger Anza-Borrego archive accumulated across decades of returning to the desert. Additional photographs and field observations will continue to be added as the archive unfolds.