01/24/2013 | Categories: Architecture, Fine art, Lens flare, My guided photo tour | Tags: blue, church, doors, guided photography tour, lens flare, New Mexico, San Ysidro, sun | Comments Off
One of the reasons I love spending time in the southwest with a camera is because I love to work with color and texture and these ingredients are found together there in abundance.
12/27/2012 | Categories: Architecture, Fine art, My guided photo tour | Tags: adobe, color, door, pillar, texture, wood | 1 Comment »
A nice spot for an autumn stroll along the Rio Grande.
12/06/2012 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: autumn, guided photography tour, leaves, New Mexico, Rio Grande, river bank, trees, yellow | Comments Off
I always enjoy returning to this little stream with my camera because the vivid color of the algae that covers the rocks contrasts so well with the autumn leaves and the sky color that the moving water reflects.
12/05/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: algae, cascade, guided photography tour, leaves, New Mexico, rocks, stream, water, waterfall | 1 Comment »
11/26/2012 | Categories: Architecture, Fine art, Landscape, My guided photo tour | Tags: barn, collpsed, dilapidated, guided photography tour, New Mexico, rustic, weathered, wood | Comments Off
I felt that this nice little collection of souvenirs from the past should be presented in an image with a nice nostalgic feel to it.
11/09/2012 | Categories: My guided photo tour | Tags: antique, artifacts, guided photography tour, junk, memorabilia, New Mexico | 1 Comment »
Bold colors and simple geometry are things that I truly enjoy combining in basic yet strong compositions. The end result may look very simple – and that’s exactly my intention, but it actually took some time and effort once I spotted the elements to make it work. Anyone watching me changing lenses and crawling around on the ground to find the right position and angle might have thought I was slightly nuts but this type of image really agrees with my personal artistic sensibilities. So for me it was worth the work and I really don’t mind what anyone who saw me lying in the dirt might have thought.
11/08/2012 | Categories: Fine art, My guided photo tour, Personal | Tags: chamisa, color, geometry, guided photography tour, New Mexico, rubber rabbitbrush, simple | 1 Comment »
I want butter on my toast and my eggs scrambled please.
11/07/2012 | Categories: My guided photo tour | Tags: eggs, free, guided photography tour, llama, New Mexico, rustic, toast | 1 Comment »
I’m in a hurry so I’m just posting something that is more documentary in nature today. This is a small collection of ancient, broken pottery pieces that can be found littering the ground in Chaco Canyon. Ceremonial breaking of pottery was a common practice in the culture here a millennia ago. Today it is illegal to collect any of the artifacts here but I did enjoy studying the variety of textures and designs on the fragments and making a photographic record of some of them.
11/02/2012 | Categories: My guided photo tour, Personal | Tags: ancient, artifacts, broken, Chaco Canyon, fragments, guided photography tour, New Mexico, pottery | Comments Off
A bit of visual proof that those sacks are filled with something delicious.
11/01/2012 | Categories: Fine art, Food, My guided photo tour | Tags: burlap, chile, chile pepper, green chile, guided photography tour, harvest, New Mexico, sack | 1 Comment »
Warm color vs. cool, sharp vs. soft, light vs. dark, man-made vs. natural, hard vs. soft, heavy vs. lightweight, repetition vs. singular…you get the idea.
10/30/2012 | Categories: Fine art, My guided photo tour | Tags: cable, contrast, feather, guided photography tour, New Mexico | 1 Comment »
I wanted to make an image that made a statement about the arid desert landscape in this location. The low angle perspective and the harsh bright sunlight were a couple of the elements that I used to make it work.
10/30/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: arid, bright, cactus, desert, desolate, dry, guided photography tour, harsh, New Mexico, remote | 1 Comment »
10/29/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Night photography | Tags: Chaco Canyon, desert, guided photography tour, mesa, moonlight, New Mexico, night, rocks, sky, stars | 1 Comment »
I love it when I can be among the aspens when they start to turn color.
10/25/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: aspens, autumn, guided photography tour, high country, mountain, New Mexico, trees | 1 Comment »
This nifty arrangement was leaning against the back wall of a church. I always enjoy it when I happen upon an interesting visual pun that I can shoot.
10/24/2012 | Categories: My guided photo tour, Personal | Tags: adobe, church, guided photography tour, ladder, New Mexico, skulls, Truchas | Comments Off
An interesting discovery inside an old barn up in the mountains. I loved the visual appeal of the afternoon light that filtered into the darkness through the various holes in the walls and the roof.
10/24/2012 | Categories: My guided photo tour | Tags: barn, guided photography tour, hide, interior, Las Trampas, New Mexico, rawhide, rustic, skin | Comments Off
Whenever I travel west I never cease to be amazed by the multitude of colors and textures that exist in the wilderness.
10/22/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: cactus, desert, hills, New Mexico, Ojito Wilderness, rocks, scrub | Comments Off
A couple of my favorite subjects that go together well so often.
10/22/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: canyon, cliffs, guided photography tour, rocks, trees | Comments Off
This valley inside an ancient volcanic caldera produces some spectacular sunsets but I must say this is one of the better sky shows that I have been treated to there. Click on it to view a larger version.
10/19/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour | Tags: cldera, clouds, crater, New Mexico, rain, sky, sunset, Valle Grande, Valles Caldera, volcano | Comments Off
We encountered this elk in Chaco Canyon and were able to get a fair amount of good photos of it before it decided to run off.
10/18/2012 | Categories: My guided photo tour, Nature | Tags: antlers, Chaco Canyon, desert, elk, guided photography tour, New Mexico, rocks | Comments Off
I’ve been here and photographed this truck a few times in the past but this was the best light I’ve ever had here and I wanted to find a composition that highlighted how well both the truck and the landscape looked in the light.
10/16/2012 | Categories: Landscape, My guided photo tour | Tags: afternoon, antique, Dodge, guided photography tour, hills, New Mexico, Taos, truck | Comments Off
I knew at the time I photographed this that I wanted to do an artistic treatment with it. I took the time last night to work with it and get it to look like what I envisioned in the first place.
10/15/2012 | Categories: Architecture, My guided photo tour | Tags: abandoned, guided photography tour, New Mexico, old, rustic, service station, tires, Truchas | Comments Off
