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Scott Lowthers Photo Blog

• This is not lightning
  A little while back some weather blew through late at night. Under the full moon, the clouds looked pretty interesting. Not all the photos, however, were terribly well composed. One in particular was the result of accidentally setting off the shutter release while still setting up the tripod.   […]
• First lightning of the year
  Around 1 AM this morning I became aware that a lightning storm was passing by. Sadly, it was a fast mover; by the time I got my camera set up taking photos, it was all over. Still, a *few* interesting photos out of the process, though no good lightning shots. […]
• Chopper Mountain
  Some photos from January showing a small helicopter flying along the Wasatch mountains. […]
• Light Pillars over Thatcher
  Combine frigid temperatures and the right kind of ice crystals in the air, and you get the relatively rare phenomenon of “light pillars,” vertical shafts of light over bright ground lights (including car headlights). […]
• Zazzle
  I’ve opened a store on zazzle.com to sell posters of my photos. A good thing about zazzle is that they allow customers to select the size of the poster they want. So while the images I’ve uploaded so far (my creakingly slow rural internet connection makes this a long process, given that the images are […]
• Sunrise & Sunset in Nebraska
  Sunrise: Sunset: […]
• Evening Shots
  From mid November, a few photos of early winter evenings: […]
• Pano 13: Fields of Fielding
  A May, 2010, view of the Bear River near Fielding, Utah. […]
• Pano 12: Winter Night Sky
  Looking south from Thatcher, Utah, late one night in January of 2010. To the left, the Wasatch mountains can be seen; Little Mountain in the center is shrouded in mist. The clouds are lit from below by the lights of Brigham City and Ogden. […]
• Pano 11: Cutler Reservoir
  An October, 2009, view across the marsh towards Mendon and the mountains. […]