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Sundogs barkin’

Hello, and welcome to Random Music Friday, where we here at One Day | One Image introduce you to, well, random music. Today’s song is “Julia”, by the Flatlanders, one of many exceptional bands with deep musical roots in Lubbock.

Anyway, give the song a listen; it’ll make the title of this post make sense. Maybe.

Clovis, New Mexico
photographed 5.28.2019

Blue Light Special

You’re going to have to trust me on this: those metal poles have tiny blue lights on top of them.

Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 3.21.2015

How many rains

The church of San Francisco de Asis was built in 1772. Even in its desert locations it has seen a lot of rains. And later that night, one more set of raindrops bathed the adobe walls.

Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2014

Fearless

A hostile landscape and a threatening storm: there should have been a warning that only the most fearless of us should enter.

near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2014

Many things require an anchor

My good friend Brett Erickson was in town last weekend; it was so good to see him again. We met about seven years ago, through photo blogs, and in many (or, really, most) ways, I consider him to be my mentor.

Five summers ago, I took a class from him at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, where I produced a version of this image during one of the class’s field trips. A print of that attempt is hanging in my Gallery O’ Shame* and Brett mentioned some things that happened the day I’d made it. That gave me a chance to look at the image again and realize that I really didn’t like what I’d done with it in post-processing, so I did something I almost never do: I had another go at it. Five years more Photoshop experience makes a difference!**

near Abiquiu, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2014

*It’s where all the stuff that got into shows but didn’t sell now resides. It’s also the guest bedroom. Guests at my home are required to take a photo with them***. If they seem reluctant to do so, I distract them with coffee with the Patient Spouse moves a photo to their car. You’ve been warned.

**See? I am teachable, which comes as a big surprise to all of us!

***Because I can’t figure out how else to get rid of the damn things.