There is something that I’m always on guard against whenever I’m spending a little time in one location. I don’t want to come home with most (or all) of the photos looking the same. It sounds impossible, since the idea is to move around and see and photograph different subjects, but strange things can happen. [...]
Archive for the ‘Southwest USA’ Category
Diversity at Arches
Posted in Arches, Diversity at Arches, Southwest USA, Technique, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged Arches, Photography, southwest, trav on September 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The High Road to Taos
Posted in High Road, Southwest USA, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged high road, new mexico, santa fe, Taos on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can take the highway between Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico or you can take a much more scenic series of secondary roads, known collectively as the High Road, that will take you to some of the most interesting pueblos and missions in the state. As you gain elevation crossing the Sangre de Cristo [...]
Monument Valley
Posted in Monument Valley, Southwest USA, Travel, tagged arizona, Monument Valley, southwest, Travel on August 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today’s selection is from a trip through the Southwest USA in June of 2006 (see other southwest posts). I camped overnight at the Monument Valley campground after a day of driving through the park. It was extremely windy and for much of the day the fine dust in the air obscured distant views and washed [...]
San Francisco de Asis
Posted in Southwest USA, Taos, Travel, tagged southwest, Travel on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I visited this iconic landmark in 2006. I got a motel room close by and was able to wander around the church for most of two days, shooting for several hours each day. The San Francisco de Asis (Saint Francis of Assisi) church has been painted and photographed by masters such as Ansel Adams and [...]
Southwest Color
Posted in Southwest USA, Travel, tagged arizona, southwest, Travel on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I’m posting a few images of scenes I found when I was exploring some of the missions in San Antonio and Tucson. Maybe I’d seen a few too many photos of missions. I found that the shots I was getting of the missions themselves, unless made at the optimum time of day, didn’t excite [...]
Mono Lake
Posted in Mono Lake, Southwest USA, Travel, tagged Mono Lake, Photography, southwest, Travel on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a couple of images of Mono Lake, a premier photo destination on Hwy. 395 in California. My best shots came just as the sun was setting over the Sierras to the west. Low clouds obscured the sun as it set, but just before dropping below the mountains, it peeked out from under the clouds [...]
Monochrome conversions
Posted in Monochrome, Southwest USA, Technique, tagged church, Monochrome, Photography, southwest on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a color photographer for the most part, although I love black and white imagery. In fact I’ve had several darkrooms in my life and learned the basics under the safelight in front of trays of magic chemicals. The digital darkroom is a fantastic advancement in photography and I take advantage of it to convert [...]
Grand Canyon
Posted in Grand Canyon, Southwest USA, Travel, tagged arizona, Grand Canyon, Photography, southwest on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Southwest trip in early summer ‘05 took me through Arizona, New Mexico and southern Utah. A ‘must-see’ was, of course, the Grand Canyon. I camped overnight and photgraphed both the last light of the day and the sunrise the next morning. The ‘golden hours’ at a place like the Grand Canyon make all the [...]
