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May 3, 1968
First of all, I want to apologize for having been so slow to respond to comments for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been doing some traveling and haven’t been able to keep up the way I like.
I spent a week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops; the legendary National Geographic photographer Sam Abell was teaching a week-long course and I was fortunate to have been selected to participate. Sam was the kind of teacher you’d want: talented, knowledgeable, and completely generous with helping us become better photographers. It was an important week.
This grave marker in a small cemetery is one of the images I made during the workshop. We found an interesting cemetery along the High Road between Santa Fe and Taos, and had time enough to stop for a while and practice the things Sam had taught us the first day of class…
Los Llanitos Cemetery
near Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
Not as portable as planned
Hernandez, New Mexico, is very famous. (This is why.)
It doesn’t quite look the same any more.
But that surely doesn’t mean there aren’t photos to be made if you stop by. This very textured little building (which may be a portable toilet?) was right there along a path, just waiting for me to come along. From the looks of things, it had been waiting for a while…
Hernandez, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2014
Re-vote
1. Earlier this week, my blogging friend from Infrared Robert and I exchanged a series of comments on our tendencies to second-guess ourselves.
2. I usually write my blog posts a week or so in advance, which gives me a cushion if I get busy and also gives me ample time to (you see where I am going here) second guess myself.
3. Every now and then, I’ll look at a post and think, “Nope. Won’t work.”
4. And that’s exactly what happened last night. I looked at what I’d scheduled for today and hated it. I can’t even think why I wanted to post it in the first place. In a manner of speaking, then, I took a re-vote on the photo. So, instead you get this shot, which I made on the plaza beside the famous and overly-photographed church at Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico*. I have an interest in the regular things that happen in places like Ranchos de Taos, which surely gets overloaded with camera-toting tourists. I wonder what it’s like to have a house there, or run the little cafe. And I think about who feeds that big black cat I saw on an adobe wall. Or who brings the newspapers in from Albuquerque and Taos to put in the machines. And if anyone even buys papers any more.
5. There was a re-vote and Kit Carson Park is now known as Red Willow Park.**
Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2014
*Google it and you’ll see what I mean.
**A song about Kit Carson; that name change was a little bit overdue.
Mammatus
NOTE: this does not refer to Mammatus, but rather to mammatus, a cloud formation characterized by a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud.
Mammatus formations are often harbingers of strong thunderstorms, or tornadoes. No tornadoes were spotted nearby. In case you wondered.
near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 7.2.2014
One Day | One Image 