Lake Pleasant, Arizona.

On this first week of Autumn in North Dakota, it’s been nice weather, so far. However, thoughts of our Arizona winters are creeping into consciousness and those desert hikes are calling. I even have a new camera, a mirrorless Sony with a very small footprint and weight factor. It will replace the much larger and heavier Nikon on our hikes. But I digress… more on that new toy in a future post. Since this post is Cellpic Sunday, I can only use a mobile device… OK so that camera could be called a mobile device… but so could my Nikon. Seriously, the image above was captured with my Samsung smartphone. It was taken in December 2015 and never before published. You see, since acquiring my new, much smaller camera, I haven’t used my cellphone much for photos as I’m trying to learn the new camera.

About the photo: I went through my galleries of desert photos to feature a cell pic that I haven’t processed. This view of Lake Pleasant was captured from the Pipeline Canyon Trail, one of my favorite hikes in the park. No doubt it will be on our list of hikes in 2018 (if not sooner)… In some browsers, you can click on the image to enlarge it.

John Steiner