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December 25th, 2009
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You can take the boy out of the southwest, but you can’t take (all) the southwest out of the boy:
One handy thing about being an “expatriate” New Mexican is that you can set up luminarias (or to be fussy, farolitos) almost anywhere. Courtesy of a snow storm a few days ago, this year [...]
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December 24th, 2009
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One of the really nice extras of the holiday season from a photographer’s perspective is that a lot of places put on special shows for a few weeks…
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December 23rd, 2009
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One of the things I’ve tried to habitually think of is taking shots with my crystal ball. So when I went on the photowalk through the Denver Zoo a few weeks back, I tried it out here and there.
Note to self: steadily hand-holding a crystal ball for long-exposure photography in sub-freezing weather isn’t all that [...]
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December 14th, 2009
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On the return leg of our recent Hawaii vacation, I was on a red-eye flight — great if you can figure out how to sleep on a plane, not so great if you’re tall enough that you’re essentially shoe-horned into your coach-class seat (thanks, United!). At least my lack of sleep meant I was awake [...]
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December 11th, 2009
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I haven’t really played much with zooming a lens in the middle of taking an image — but since I was taking long-duration tripod shots on my recent night excursion to the Denver Zoo, thought it was a good time to start…
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December 9th, 2009
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A shot from a recent nighttime photowalk at the Denver Zoo…
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December 2nd, 2009
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Since you never really know who’s reading your blog, I’ve thought it best to talk about travel only after I’ve returned home from it. So now I can start telling you about a family vacation we just wrapped up in Hawaii.
The lead-off shot — lava reaching the sea on the “big island” of Hawaii:
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December 1st, 2009
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One last shot (for a while) from Santa Fe:
I saw this and just was struck by the odd (if somewhat subtle) difference between the geometry of the railing and that of its shadow. I didn’t have to do much to this shot other than tweak the saturation a bit. The odd break in [...]
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October 23rd, 2009
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On our recent trip back to New Mexico, we managed to stay a night and a day in Santa Fe…
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September 10th, 2009
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So what’s a guy to do when he’s out of town on a business trip, and spends all his daylight hours in meetings?