The last two days, there was some buildup online and on local TV about a big storm that was coming though today. I got up as usual and worked from home in an overcast day. Around ten, a light flurry arrived and tiny snow swirled out my back door. At 1:40, when I needed...
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I needed to get out today, so about noon I got my stuff all in the truck and headed for NM-14. Why NM-14? I have no idea. My original plan was to end up at Santa Cruz Lake by Nambe at dusk, and I guess NM-14 was a more interesting way to get there....
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Tonight after work I met my sister, her husband, and her eldest son for a walk in the Sandia foothills at dusk. I had my camera with me, but a long stretch of clouds to the west made the prospects of remarkable light at sun down seem pretty slim. Except, there was a thin...
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I have been slowly working through the book Great Landscape Photography, and in several of the early chapters, author Glenn Randall stresses how he has used imagination and planning to help him take some remarkable photos. In the last few days, I have been reading a chapter where Randall goes in depth to explain...
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I needed to get out for a little while after sitting in a cool house today for work, so I took off work a little early and decide to go visit Los Poblanos Open Space off of Montgomery west of 4th street. I took my camera with me, as always, because I figured there...
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It was evidently a banner year last year for many, if not most, U.S. National Parks. With COVID locking away a majority of Americans in 2020, many of the locked-aways pushed back in 2021, and with limitations and reticence about flying still holding down air travel, the locked-aways made road destinations their targets for...
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I had pondered it for a few months, but in the end, it was an impulse that launched me west from Albuquerque towards Gallup, New Mexico. Seeing recent photos taken by others of hot air balloons lingering over red rock walls gave me the shove I needed to hit the road Saturday morning. After...
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This last Sunday, with the knowledge that fall was arriving this week, and with it, the spread of color down the Rocky Mountain chain and beyond, I figured it was a good day to reconnoiter how some trees looked up north. After getting up early and getting a green chile stew stewing in the...
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Tonight after work I decided to head back down to Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge to check in on the birds. I knew the Cubs game played this evening was blacked out locally, so I couldn’t go home and watch it. And I also didn’t feel much like going home to sit around....
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Last weekend, my parents and I took a wonderful morning ride that rolled over into a full day trip, bringing us from Albuquerque to Jemez Pueblo, and then from there on up to Soda Dam, and then a drive through and stop at various points in and around the Valles Caldera National Park. Hungry...
Read more →Late this afternoon, my legs needed a stretch, so I went out and walked around the neighborhood and looked for things to take pictures of. It was windy and cold, and the streets downtown were uncommonly empty. I walked over to Alvarado station, and then crossed Central to take a few pictures of progress...
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The last few nights after I’ve come home from work, I’ve found myself viewing YouTube videos on photography. I find myself perplexed by this photography thing. Here I have this fine piece of equipment called a camera which has the power to create some unique and remarkable images, and to use it to do...
Read more →In case you missed it, today was the day (some of) the world went (kinda) dark. Today was Total Eclipse 2017, which at first, when I heard that title, thought it was actually WWF promotion. It wasn’t, though. It was the real deal. Today, the moon blotted out the sun in a diagonal slash...
Read more →Between yesterday and today, I drove over 700 miles and took over 600 pictures. My destination yesterday was Monument Valley, Utah, and most of the pictures I took today were from that scenic spot. Tonight, I downloaded the pictures from my camera- and upon review, they mostly all appeared heavily tinted red. I am...
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Frequently now Tim is returning to a habit of going out and walking some around downtown midday during the work day, and I try to join him. It is nice to just go out and breathe some fresh air and move your arms and legs, and it is nice to see what is going...
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