ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This was taken on a stormy May evening, just before sunset, on Lake Tahoe. I had gone to this location to try to get photos of Bonsai Rock. I wasn't able to see it from the road above, and hiked down the steep mountain side in search of it. Turns out I was a bit further south than I thought. It was very dark out due to the stormy low clouds and rain. All of a sudden a hole opened in the clouds and the sun appeared. Then I heard thunder in the not-too-far distance, so I took this shot and climbed up the near vertical hillside as fast as I could. I got up to the car as it started to pour. To my amazement, Bonsai Rock was in the image, to the right of center.

AUTHOR
Mike Herdering is a self-taught photographer living in southern California. He purchased his first SLR as a teen in the '70s and processed his images in his bedroom closet. Though he's taken numerous art classes, in high school and college, photography classes were not part of the curriculum at the time he attended school. Now, as a retired software engineer, he is able to pursue his passion as a landscape and hummingbird photographer. Mike has been using digital SLRs since 2004 and has displayed his work at local art shows and galleries near his home town, as well as at the Pasadena Museum of History. His landscapes, primarily from the U.S. southwest, range from the familiar (Yosemite, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon) to the not-so-familiar (Coal Mine Canyon, North and South Coyote Buttes, AZ and The Isle Of Skye, Scotland). His hummingbird photos, of Anna's, Allen's, Black Chinned and Rufous Hummingbirds, in flight, are all taken in his yard. When processing his images, he attempts to display the beauty of the scene in a realistic manner, whether the conditions of the capture were ideal or not.

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