ever rest
I might have stayed a little longer to work some things out on this composition, but the (very) nearby dog sort of indicated that perhaps I had already overstayed my welcome.
(I have what I hope is a completely irrational fear that loose, barking/snarling dogs fully intend to eat one or more of my legs.)
Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024
sometimes there’s nothing to say
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024
magical lights
I will always fall in love with a nighttime street that’s got lights hanging over it. Always. Every time.
I mean, I don’t fall in love with it enough to photograph it the “right” with a tripod and focused and stuff. But anyway, my brain likes this more ephemeral look so my brain and I are going to make you look at this version. That’s the way we roll.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
privacy curtain
You know how sometimes you pull into a little town and it seems friendly and you think about stopping for lunch or a coffee so you can have little bit of time chatting with the locals? And then later you check VBRO because it seems like maybe you’d like to go back for a long weekend and you wonder what your options are?
This town is…not that sort of place.
Puerto de Luna, New Mexico
photographed 10.6.2024
life/guard
I am so used to the west Texas wind blowing almost all the time that when I go somewhere that’s not windy, I am sort of it awe of that being an actual thing.
I was in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, the other night and there wasn’t even the tiniest bit of a breeze. You could tell from the air that fall was nearby and it was pleasant to be outside. I took advantage of all those conditions plus some dramatic reflections at a local lake and spent an hour or so making photographs. That v-shaped tree on the far side of the lake is what initially caught my attention; it’s in almost all of the photos I made that night. That seemed fair, since it was the reason I stopped in the first place.
Park Lake
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 10.5.2024
