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Photo Number One: Santa Fe Photographic Workshops

along NM Highway 96
near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.14

Posted on July 8, 2014, in Photography and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 28 Comments.

  3. Mahahnphotography's avatar Mark Hahn | July 8, 2014 at 8:32 am

    I’ve driven that road! Sometimes it feels I will always drive that road. Great emotional photo!

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  4. Linda Grashoff's avatar Linda Grashoff | July 8, 2014 at 11:05 am

    Oi yoi oi! Amazing. You got the car-lights streaks as well as the lightening! And the foliage in the foreground. And everything reading left to right. Great job.

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  5. John's avatar John | July 8, 2014 at 11:51 am

    Powerful image.

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  6. Nelson's avatar Nelson | July 8, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    Catching lighting like day is my dream, one day

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    • Melinda Green Harvey's avatar Melinda Green Harvey | July 8, 2014 at 9:28 pm

      I’d always wanted to get some lightning shots; a couple of things stood in my way. First, a years-long drought where I lived meant that we didn’t have any storms. And, I didn’t know how to do it. But, I got plenty of practice on this particular night…and am looking forward to more storms!

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  7. lisakimmorley's avatar lisakimmorley | July 9, 2014 at 12:27 am

    Wonderful shot and the car light trail just adds to the energy 🙂

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  8. Ron Hillmar's avatar Rondje | July 10, 2014 at 4:11 am

    Amazing photo and works great in contrasty B&W!
    Greetz, Ron

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  9. ehpem's avatar ehpem | July 10, 2014 at 9:00 am

    This is a terrific image. I expect it will show up in a competition or two! Love all the tones in the sky, and the light streak along the road. This one shot makes your workshop time worthwhile.

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    • Melinda Green Harvey's avatar Melinda Green Harvey | July 10, 2014 at 9:08 am

      Thanks – standing on the edges of the storm shooting lightning was the best fun I had all week! My classmate Larry (Yes! Another Larry!) and were next to each other, cheering like little kids every time there was lightning. It was exhilarating.

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      • ehpem's avatar ehpem | July 10, 2014 at 9:13 am

        My worry in lightning storms is all the metal in tripods. So far, I have only handheld, and never actually lucked out. Tripods being an essential part, as far as I can tell. We don’t get a lot of lightning here, so there are few chances. This is a great location as well as a great storm. Did you get wet?

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      • Melinda Green Harvey's avatar Melinda Green Harvey | July 10, 2014 at 9:46 am

        Unless you can hold a camera steady for 30 seconds or so, a tripod’s the way to go.

        We were behind the storm, so we didn’t get wet. We were at a relatively low spot, too, at the base of some hills and a mountain, Perdanal, which Georgia O’Keeffe painted many times (http://bit.ly/1lWZz11). We were hoping to get lightning strikes on the mountain, but that didn’t work out.

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      • ehpem's avatar ehpem | July 12, 2014 at 11:20 am

        Cool link, and nice place to hang out, even in a lightning storm! I don’t think you needed photos of a strike on the mountain, not when you got one like this.

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      • Melinda Green Harvey's avatar Melinda Green Harvey | July 12, 2014 at 2:44 pm

        Thanks – I guess you don’t see much of those O’Keeffe-esque landscapes in BC, do you?

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      • ehpem's avatar ehpem | July 14, 2014 at 10:51 pm

        Nope. Not too many, in this part of BC anyway…

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  10. Caryn's avatar Caryn | July 12, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    Striking image. Really beautiful.

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  11. LensScaper's avatar LensScaper | July 13, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    Oh Wow! Superb image, Melinda. That blaze of light along the road really completes the picture.

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